Électricité de France SA, commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France. Headquartered in Paris, with €139.7 billion in sales in 2023, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of at least 120 gigawatts of generation capacity in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Tour EDF, La Défense, near Paris, where EDF's commerce division is located.
EDF head office, 22–30 avenue de Wagram, Paris 8th arr.
EDF produces its electricity primarily from nuclear power plants
Areva S.A. is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (54.37%), Banque publique d'investissement (3.32%), and Agence des participations de l'État (28.83%). Électricité de France, of which the French government has a majority ownership stake, owned 2.24%; Kuwait Investment Authority owned 4.82% as the second largest shareholder after the French state.
Headquarters in Courbevoie, France
Former Areva headquarters, rue Lafayette in Paris
Olkiluoto-3 under construction in 2009