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EDF was created on 8 April 1946 by the 1945 parliament, from the merging of various divided actors. EDF led France's post-war energy growth, with a unique focus on civil nuclear energy, through reconstruction and further industrialization within the Trente Glorieuses, being a flagship of France's
EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company, wholly owned by the French state-owned EDF (Électricité de France), with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom. It employs 11,717 people, and handles 5.22 million business and residential ...
The energy crisis of 2021-2022 led to a major restructuring of the market: many of EDF's competitors, destabilized by the sharp rise in electricity and gas prices, withdrew from the market. In October 2021, Leclerc Energie stopped selling its contracts, leaving its 150,000 customers to find a back-up supplier.
The electricity sector in France is dominated by its nuclear power, which accounted for 71.7% of total production in 2018, while renewables and fossil fuels accounted for 21.3% and 7.1%, respectively [1] (compare to 72.3% nuclear, 17.8% renewables and 8.6% fossil fuels in 2016). [2]
Sizewell C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MWe nuclear power station with two EPR reactors in Suffolk, England. [3] The project was proposed by a consortium of EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Power Group, which own 80% and 20% of the project respectively.
The Heysham nuclear power stations are operated by EDF Energy in Heysham, Lancashire, England.On the site two separate nuclear power stations, Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 operate independently, only with joint entry protocol, both with two reactors of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type.
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Founded in 2009 by former The Independent and Western Daily Press journalist Christopher Brown, [3] it was designed as an independent newspaper for Bristol. [4] The following year, fellow Western Daily Press journalist Laura K Williams joined to launch a What's On section. In 2011 it was voted EDF Energy South West Website of the Year. [5]