Électricité de France (EDF) is the world’s largest utility company with $95.5 billion in revenues last year, operating a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East and Africa. EDF was founded on April 8, 1946, as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors by the minister of industrial production Marcel Paul and has become t...
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Électricité de France (EDF) is the world’s largest utility company with $95.5 billion in revenues last year, operating a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East and Africa. EDF was founded on April 8, 1946, as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors by the minister of industrial production Marcel Paul and has become the main electricity generation and distribution company in France. Among these prior electricity producers was Societe Toulousaine d'Electricite du Bazacle at that time probably the oldest limited company in the world. Until November 19, 2004, it was a government corporation, but it is now a limited-liability corporation under private law (société anonyme). The French government partially floated shares of the company on the Paris Stock Exchange in November 2005, although it retains almost 85% ownership as of the end of 2008.
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