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World leader on the electricity production market, GDF SUEZ is the number five producer of electricity in Europe. The merger of GDF SUEZ with International Power, finalized on February 3, 2011, enhances the Group's worldwide leadership in the area of services to public authorities.
The world’s largest independent electricity producer
GDF SUEZ has an electricity production capacity of 78.2 GW(1), and 113 GW including International Power, with which the Group completed a merger-acquisition at the beginning of 2011. Since the merger, GDF SUEZ has become the largest independent electricity producer and operator in the utilities sector in the world in terms of revenues.
The goal is to achieve 150 GW of installed capacity by 2016, of which 90 GW will be outside of Europe.
(1) calculated at 100%, which takes into account the entire capacity of assets held by GDF SUEZ, whatever the actual level of ownership, except for the special case of drawing rights, which are added when the Group holds them and deducted when the Group grants them to third parties.
| Focus on International Power | |
| International Power offers extremely attractive resources:
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GDF SUEZ electricity production worldwide
- No. 1 independent electricity producer in the world,
- No. 5 electricity producer in Europe,
- No. 1 electricity producer in Belgium and the Netherlands,
- No. 2 producer in France, No. 6 in Italy,
- No. 1 private electricity producer in Brazil and Thailand,
- No. 4 electricity supplier to industrial companies and the service sector (non-residential market) in the United States,
- No. 1 private energy developer in the Gulf countries in terms of installed capacity.
The Group also plays a prominent role in central Europe (Poland, Hungary, etc.), Latin America (Brazil, Chile), Asia (China, Thailand, Singapore), the Middle East and Australia.
A diversified electricity production base
GDF SUEZ’s electricity production base is one of the most diversified and is comprised of:
- major nuclear capacities,
- the latest generation combined-cycle gas power plants,
- a major hydraulic power facility (number two in Brazil and France),
- fast growing production capacities from renewable sources of energy (biomass, wind, solar and hydraulic, to name a few),
- traditional thermal power capacities (“supercritical” latest generation coal-fired plants).
In order to increase energy production and meet ever increasing energy needs, GDF SUEZ is pursuing in Europe, the Americas and Asia, an active policy of industrial capital expenditures.
A special place for renewable energies
The commitment of GDF SUEZ is to produce more without jeopardizing environmental equilibrium. In that sense, the Group is focusing on developing new production capacities by favouring the most efficient solutions that produce the lowest amounts of carbon emissions.
| Poland, a key market for the production of green electricity | |
| GDF SUEZ is the leader in green energy production in Poland through its subsidiary GDF SUEZ Energia Polska. The Group operates the Polaniec coal and biomass co-combustion plant with a capacity of 1,657 MW. The plant has recently invested in an installation for the desulfurization of smoke. In 2010, the Polaniec plant produced 8 TWh of electricity, of which 0.7 TWh were classified as renewable since they were produced from biomass. | |
To date 26% of the Group’s power capacities comes from renewable resources. Hydropower is of course the most used source of this type of energy, but wind power, solar power, biomass, and biogas occupy a growing position in the company’s energy mix.
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| Steam-gas combined cycle thermal power plants in Herdersbrug (Bruges, Belgium)
The plant combines a gas turbine and classic thermal power plant, and produces twice the amount of electricity. |
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| Biomass plant in Awirs (Liège, Belgium)
With a capacity of 80 MW, the plant consumes 400,000 t of wood pellets per year, reducing CO2 emissions by 500,000 t. |
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| Wind turbine of Izegem
Built in 2008, these two wind turbines have a power of 2 MW each. The tower is 140 m tall and the blades span 80 m. |
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| Pumped storage power station of Coo
This hydraulic plant is used to adjust the power supply to the variable need of the grid. |
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| Drogenbos plant
This power plant near Brussels, combines a gas turbine with a traditional thermal power station with a cooling tower. |
