Center for Environment, Commerce & (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Henri Proglio , left, is now the new CEO of Electricity de France (EdF). Proglio was formally head of the Veolia Environnement waste, water and transport company. He replaces the current executive chairman of EdF, Pierre Gadonneix, whose term expired in November. See: Constellation/EdF joint venture Also see: Answers.com
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
GALWAY, IRELAND (MARKET WIRE) Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) -- The process of selling land for a new nuclear power plant at Bradwell in southeast England is under way. EDF Energy (London, England), a subsidiary of French energy giant Electricite de France (EPA: EDF) (Paris, France), has invited 'credible nuclear operators' to express interest....
Euractive (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
French company Electricité de France (EDF) on 27 November signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia's Gazprom regarding its possible participation in the South Stream gas pipeline, seen as a competitor to the EU-backed Nabucco project.
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... environmental campaigners like Greenpeace, their membership includes industrial giants such as Electricite de France, Shell and Siemens. Renewable energy these days is a big business that could be about to get a whole lot bigger if world leaders agree on a package to cut global warming at the U.N. climate change conference starting Dec. 7 in Copenhagen. EREC has an annual budget of 850,000...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Russia's Gazprom signed a deal on Friday to supply Electricite de France (EDF), the world's largest utility company, with up to 6 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, a Russian deputy PM said.
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The French energy giant, Electricite de France (EDF), has agreed to participate in the Russian South Stream gas line project. The information was announced by the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, Friday. The agreement is considered another big victory for Putin who had an intense, but very successful trip to France. ...
World Nuclear News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Henri Proglio has been appointed as the new chairman and CEO of French generator Electricité de France (EdF). Sixty-year old Proglio has been chairman and CEO of water and environmental services giant Veolia Environnement since 2003, and a non-executive director of EdF since September 2004. He retains his position as non-executive chairman of the Veolia Environnement board of directors. The...
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The deal was announced after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his French counterpart, François Fillon, at the Château de Rambouillet—a medieval manor 30 miles southwest of Paris. Both countries are known for a high degree of government involvement in industry, and the prime ministers announced a number of other agreements, including the participation of the giant Électricité de France in Russia's...
Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
They will also discuss France's possible participation in Russian pipeline projects. For six months France's GDF Suez has been in talks with Russian natural gas giant Gazprom on taking a stake in the NordStream pipeline, while last month Electricite de France SA said it was negotiating with Gazprom on possibly taking a minority stake in the planned South Stream pipeline.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
They will also discuss France's possible participation in Russian pipeline projects. For six months France's GDF Suez has been in talks with Russian natural gas giant Gazprom on taking a stake in the NordStream pipeline, while last month Electricite de France SA said it was negotiating with Gazprom on possibly taking a minority stake in the planned South Stream pipeline.
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... Francois Fillon that 25 agreements had been signed.Henri Proglio, the new head of state-controlled Electricite de France, confirmed that EDF was taking a 10 percent stake in the South Stream pipeline.Although no agreement was signed, Gazprom head Alexei Miller and executives of France's GDF Suez discussed energy cooperation and progress was made on negotiations for GDF to take a minority...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... of the first new nuclear power plant to be ordered since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Electricité de France (EDF), the largest merchant of nuclear power in Europe, has purchased an almost 50 percent share in Constellation's nuclear holdings and will try to build a new nuclear power plant in our state with millions of dollars in federal loan guarantees. Last week's leak is the...
World Nuclear News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Electricité de France (EdF) has inaugurated new laboratories at the Materials Ageing Institute (MAI) in France, which will examine the link between materials science and power plant component performance and degradation.
World Nuclear News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Poland's largest power utility, Polska Grupa Energetyczna, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Electricité de France which could see the two companies cooperating in the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant.
World Nuclear News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Electricité de France has permission to take a controlling stake in a Belgian utility as well as to complete its deal with Centrica regarding British Energy after a ruling by European competition authorities.
