EDF_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

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PRESENTATION OF EDF GROUP Description of the Group's activities

Since 2015, the Renewable Energy Division manages and promotes the EDF group’s renewable energy activities, namely hydropower and the renewable generation activities. This Division also oversees all renewable projects (wind, solar, marine etc.) undertaken by the Group, including those run by the foreign subsidiaries.

The EDF group’s commitments in terms of developing renewable energy are described in section 3.1.2 “Corporate Social Responsibility Goals”.

NET GROUP CAPACITY* IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AT END 2017 (in MW) Hydropower Wind Photovoltaic

Biomass Geothermal

Marine

Total

France

20,319

1,130 2,387 3,551

239

232

8

240

22,169

Europe excl. France

2,055

99

10 40

- - - -

- - -

4,551 4,237

America

-

646

Asia

428

168 372

81 99

- -

677 471

Africa

-

TOTAL NET CAPACITY

22,802

7,609

1,164

282

8

240

32,105

Power generation capacity, in proportion of the share the EDF group held in each asset. *

Hydropower generation in France 1.4.1.5.1 The electricity generated by EDF from its fleet of hydropower plants in mainland France in 2017 (including pumped storage) totalled 37.1TWh, 8.5% of its total electricity output. 1.4.1.5.1.1 EDF’s hydropower generation fleet

EDF’s hydropower fleet in mainland France comprised 433 plants at the end of 2017 with ans average age of 73 years (1) : approximately 11% of these plants have a unit capacity above 100MW. They account for around 63% of total generation; ■ approximately 51% of these plants have a unit capacity under 12MW. They account for around 6% of total generation. ■

31/12/2017

31/12/2016

Hydropower plants with capacity lower than or equal to 12MW Maximum capacity (in MW)

989.7

990.2

2.1

2.5

Net pumping output (in TWh)

Consumption by pumping operations (in GWh)

23.5

48.5

Output including pumping (in TWh)

2.1

2.6

Hydropower plants with capacity greater than 12MW Maximum capacity (in MW)

19,017.0

18,965.8

28.0

33.3

Net pumping output (in TWh)

Consumption by pumping operations (in TWh) Output including pumping (in TWh) TOTAL MAXIMUM CAPACITY (in GW) TOTAL NET PUMPING OUTPUT * (in TWh) TOTAL OUTPUT INCLUDING PUMPING * (in TWh)

7.0

6.6

35.0 20.0 30.1 37.1

39.9 20.0 35.8 42.4

Corresponds to the sum of the exact values rounded to one decimal place. *

Within mainland France, hydropower plants are mainly located in mountainous areas in the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Massif Central and the Jura, as well as on the Rhine. In all, they represent an installed capacity of approximately 20GW (excluding French overseas departments and Corsica), or 21% of EDF’s fleet, for an annual generation capability of around 40TWh. The various hydropower facilities are designed to optimise the use of water resources in the valleys where they are situated. Given the size and variety of its fleet, EDF has facilities able to respond to all types of desired uses, from base to peak generation, and which also offer levers for optimisation due to their flexibility: “run-of-river” plants, like the ones on the Rhine, which have no storage capacity and generate electricity depending on the available water flow; plants with

pondage, thus accessing average-sized reservoirs (smaller than lakes) for occasional use during the week or during the day, to cover peaks in demand; lake plants (seasonal reservoirs) located in mountainous areas (Alps, Massif Central and Pyrenees); pumped-storage plants (commonly known in France as STEPs, from their French acronym), which pump water from a lower reservoir to an upper reservoir during periods of low demand when electricity is also lower in cost, in order to build up reserves used to generate energy at peak times (by releasing the stored water through turbines from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir); and a tidal power plant on the river Rance which, using the up and down movement of the tides,

provides a very regular supply of electricity.

Arithmetic mean. (1)

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