Key figures

EDF Energy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EDF. As an integrated energy company we generate, distribute and supply electricity and gas in the UK through our Energy, Networks and Customers branches. In 2008 we were the leading distributor of electricity in the UK (in terms of electricity distributed and regulated asset value) and the third largest electricity supplier (in terms of TWh sold). We are also a significant electricity generator, with a nameplate capacity (excluding PPAs) of 4.9GW.

In 2008 we distributed electricity to more than 8 million homes and businesses in London and the east and south-east of England, via a 182,000 km network, supplying 52.1 TWh of electricity and 30.3 TWh of gas in total. At the end of the year we had 5.6 million customer product accounts, including residential customers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and major business account holders.

Our total sales in 2008 were £6,621 million. We employed 13,406 people in full-time employment

All electricity suppliers in the UK are required to publish information on the generation sources of the electricity they provide to their customers. The table below shows how the energy used from April 2007 to March 2008 by our residential and business and residential customers was generated. Our customers' total electricity demand comes from two sources: half is generated from our own generation portfolio; the remainder is purchased from other power generators via the wholesale market. Fuel Mix disclosure in the UK was introduced in 2005 and therefore there is no data available prior to this period.

Source: Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform