ENGIE develops its businesses (power, natural gas, energy services) around a model based on responsible growth to take on the major challenges of energy’s transition to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation and the rational use of resources.
The Group provides individuals, cities and businesses with highly efficient and innovative solutions largely based on its expertise in four key sectors: renewable energy, energy efficiency, liquefied natural gas and digital technology. ENGIE employs 153,090 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €66.6 billion in 2016.
The Group is listed on the Paris and Brussels stock exchanges (ENGI) and is represented in the main international indices: CAC 40, BEL 20, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe, DJSI World, DJSI Europe and Euronext Vigeo (World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120 and France 20).
In Brazil, ENGIE is the largest private power producer in the country, operating an installed capacity of 10,290 MW in 32 power plants all over Brazil, which stands for about 6% of the country's capacity. The Group has 90% of its installed capacity in the country coming from clean, renewable sources and with low emissions of greenhouse gases, a status that has been reinforced by the construction of new wind farms in the Northeast and by one of the largest hydropower plants in Brazil, Jirau (3,750 MW), located in the Madeira River, Rondônia and inaugurated in December 2016.
The Group is also present in the solar distributed generation market and offers services related to power, engineering and integration of systems working on the development of telecommunication and security systems, public lighting and urban mobility for smart cities, infrastructures and the oil & gas industry. With 3,000 employees, ENGIE had a turnover of R$ 6 billion in the country in 2016.
Copel - Companhia Paranaense de Energia, the largest company of the State of Paraná, was founded on October 26, 1954 with ownership control held by the State of Paraná. The Company went public in April 1994 (BM&FBovespa) and, in 1997, it was the first company of the Brazilian electricity sector to be listed at the New York Stock Exchange. As from June 2002, the brand is also present at the European Economic Community, having been listed at Latibex - the Latin American arm of the Madrid Stock Exchange. As of May 7, 2008, Copel's shares were ranked at Level 1 of São Paulo Stock Exchange (BM&FBovespa)'s Corporate Governance.
The Company directly serves 4,255,804 consuming units, across 395 cities and 1,113 locations (districts, villages and settlements), located in the State of Paraná. This network consists of 3.3 million homes, 91 thousand plants, 348 thousand commercial establishments and 372 thousand rural properties. The staff is composed of 8,573 employees.
Copel's structure comprises the operation of: an own generating complex composed of 20 power plants (18 hydroelectric plants, 1 thermal plant and 1 wind plant), whose installed capacity totals 4,756 MW; the transmission system totaling 2,174 km of lines and 33 substations (all of them automated); the distribution system, which consists of 188,654 km of lines and network of up to 230 kV - enough to spin four times round the Earth through the Equator line - and 361 substations (100% automated); the optical telecommunication system (Paraná's Infoway), which has 9,559 km of OPGW cables installed between the main ring and urban radials (self-sustained cables), totaling 15,817 km and reaching 399 cities of the State of Paraná and 2 cities of the State of Santa Catarina.
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