Businesses

Our distribution activity consists in channeling the electricity sold by the various energy suppliers, whoever they are, to end-customers. This activity is part of the ‘regulated sector’.

ERDF (Electricité Réseau Distribution France) operates the distribution network in mainland France. It guarantees access to the network for all users, applying objective, transparent, and non-discriminatory standards. As an industrial concession operator ERDF is responsible for developing, operating and maintaining the asset base in France and for providing a public service. ERDF, a wholly-owned EDF subsidiary, is a public limited company with a board of directors and a supervisory board.

A service jointly-owned with the subsidiary of GDF-Suez, which manages the gas distribution network, involving nearly 45,000 people, handles the operating tasks of both subsidiaries.

• In Italy, Edison, in which EDF has a 50% stake, is developing several infrastructure projects to transport natural gas to Italy. The objective is to no longer be reliant on the infrastructure of its main competitors. Once these projects are completed they will allow the transit of gas from the south to the north of the country, opening up opportunities to meet the Group's needs in France and Germany. There are three strategic infrastructure projects: the Galsi gas pipeline (900 km) to import gas from Algeria to Sardinia and Tuscany from 2012; the Greece-Italy gas pipeline designed to transport natural gas from Caspian sea countries via Turkey (IGI) and Greece in 2012, and in which Edison will hold 80% of the transmission capacity between Greece and Italy; and the offshore terminal for the regasification of liquid natural gas (LNG) in the Adriatic near Rovigo (Edison 10%).
• In Hungary, the EDF Group is active via Demasz, its wholly-owned subsidiary, and BE ZRt, in which it holds a 95.7% stake. Demasz distributes electricity to almost 800,000 customers and supplies 5.7 TWh. 
• In Slovakia, EDF has a 49% stake in SSE, a distribution and supply company with 32,340 km of high-, medium- and low-voltage lines and 704,755 customers. Its network activities have been handled by subsidiaries since July 1, 2007. EDF plans to secure SSE’s procurements by studying generation projects.