Power consumtions for gas/electricity


EDF, France
French state-owned Électricité de France SA (EDF) had $75.8bn market capitalisation and $353.9bn of assets as of May 2014. The company, which is engaged in power generation, transmission, distribution as well as energy supply and trading businesses both inside and outside France, recorded sales of $100.4bn and a profit of $4.5bn in 2013.
Founded in April 1946, EDF currently employs 154,941 people and is headquartered in Paris. Gross installed capacity of the company by the end of 2013 stood at 140.4GW, which included 53% from nuclear power. It generated 653.9TWh of electricity for 39.1 million customers during the year. EDF owns and operates three of the world's top ten nuclear power plants by capacity. Its wholly-owned subsidiary EDF Energy is the biggest producer of low-carbon electricity in the UK.
Enel, Italy
Italy-based power company Enel had $53.2bn of market value and $226.2bn of assets as of May 2014. The company operates in 32 countries and employs 71,394 employees, operating power generation, transmission as well as upstream gas businesses. Its revenue and profit during 2013 stood at $106.3bn and $4.3bn respectively.
Enel was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Rome. It had 95GW of net installed capacity and 1.9 million km's of electricity and gas distribution network to serve approximately 61 million customers, as of June 2014. Its subsidiary Enel Green Power owns Larderello Geothermal Complex, the second biggest geothermal power station in the world.
E.ON, Germany
E.ON's market capitalisation as of May 2014 stood at $37.2bn, while its power and fossil production assets spread over Germany, UK, Sweden, Russia, the US, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were valued at $180.1bn. Sales and net operating profit in 2013 stood at $162.6bn and $2.8bn respectively.
E.ON, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, was founded in June 2000 and currently employs 62,239 people. The company owned generation capacity of about 61 GW by the end of 2013. Its subsidiary E.ON Russia owns and operates the world's biggest gas-fired power station Surgutskaya GRES-2 in the Russian city of Surgut.

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