Electricite de France

Founded in 1946, EDF is a state-owned enterprise in charge of power generation, transmission and distribution in France. In order to fulfill the mission of public service, EDF is responsible for the design, construction and operation of power facilities.

With more than 50 years of energy development experience, EDF has become one of the world's leading power companies. As a large enterprise with world-class industrial competitiveness in nuclear energy, thermal energy, hydropower and renewable energy, EDF can provide integrated solutions including power investment, engineering design, power management and distribution.

In 2000, EDF generated 482 billion kwh of electricity. Among them, nuclear power accounts for 82%, hydropower 13% and thermal power 5%. The total installed capacity of EDF is 103500 MW (63000 MW for nuclear power, 23300 MW for hydropower and 17200 MW for thermal power).

In 2000, EDF's domestic electricity sales amounted to 397.5 billion kWh (+ 1.9%). She is also the largest electricity exporter in Europe. In 2000, the net export electricity reached 69.4 billion kwh, an increase of 8.4% over the previous year. This proves that the company's power generation facilities can meet the power demand of the European market.

As one of the main players in the world energy market, EDF has invested more than 11 billion euros in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. With 31 million domestic customers and 20 million overseas customers, EDF is one of the largest power supply service providers in the world.

In order to better meet the needs of global customers, EDF has modernized its corporate governance structure and integrated its business into seven branches, with its Asia Pacific headquarters in Beijing.

As one of the world's largest power producers, it has an installed capacity of more than 100000 MW, with a production capacity of 458 billion kwh in France, supplying power to more than 30 million users. The development of EDF's international business has accelerated significantly, and it plays an important role in today's power market, especially in Europe, Latin America and Asia. EDF has been operating in China for 15 years. Since 1997, EDF has become an investor in China's power production. Due to the opening-up policy of the Chinese government, EDF has successfully made two significant investments. As a major shareholder (holding 60% of the shares), it is the first in China to build Laibin Power Plant B (2 × 360 MW) in the form of international bidding bot. The power plant is under construction and is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2000. In addition, EDF also took a 19.6% stake in the Shandong project (3 power plants, a total of 3000 MW, 8 units), which is the largest power plant project in China through project financing. Another important project is Hubei Huanggang power plant (2 × 600 MW), which is in the development stage in cooperation with Hubei electric power department and government departments. There are other projects under study. EDF is very concerned about the future demand of China's power market: clean coal combustion, hydropower, peak shaving power station, etc. we are also concerned about the development of power supply and distribution.

EDF's investment in China and its cooperation with the Chinese power sector strive to integrate China's industry and capabilities as much as possible. EDF is full of confidence in China's economic development. Despite the financial crisis in Asia, we firmly believe that the Chinese government has the ability to maintain a stable environment and a good economic situation. Since 1986, EDF has become a long-term partner in China's nuclear industry.

In 1994, China's Daya Bay nuclear power unit with French PWR technology as the standard began to operate. Since 1986, EDF has provided technical services including design, construction management, experiment, operator training and operation. The power plant is completely managed by the Chinese side, and its technical and economic indicators show the success of this cooperation.

Since 1996, on the basis of previous successful experience, two new nuclear power units (2 × 985 MW) have been built in Lingao, which will be completed in 2002 and 2003 respectively. This time, the Chinese side led the design and construction of the construction site and was responsible for it. EDF provided technical guidance. Compared with Daya Bay project, China's industrial technology has more involvement.

Since 1995, all PWR technologies in France have been open to Chinese counterparts, from the continuously improved 900 MW units to the most advanced N4 (1500 MW) units, which are the most modern and largest capacity units in the world.

In 1997, with the support of the French government, EDF recommended a new type of nuclear power plant to Chinese industrial counterparts. The plan will be developed in China in the future: cnp1000 (China pwr1000 MW), which is composed of six units. It combines China's experience in Daya Bay and Ling'ao power plants with the main technical indicators of French N4, and has passed the certification. It is compared with traditional power plants It is more secure and competitive due to serialization, and can ultimately realize China's nuclear power development, design, equipment manufacturing and construction and complete autonomy.