EDP

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.edp.pt
Employees: 13,097
Employee growth: (3.5%)

If you're from Portugal, you plug into EDP - Energias de Portugal, the state-controlled holding company for utilities that generate, transmit, and distribute electricity. EDP's distribution unit serves customers across Portugal and has stakes in Brazilian power distributors. In total, EDP serves 9.9 million electric customers. Other operations include a majority stake in Spanish utility HC Energía, gas distribution (790,000 customers), utility metering and billing, engineering, and water and wastewater projects. EDP's combined generating capacity of more than 15,600 MW from its domestic hydroelectric, fossil-fueled, and wind-driven plants. The Portuguese government controls about 20% of EDP.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $12.8M
One year growth: (99.8%)
Net income: $8.8M
Income growth: (99.4%)

Officers:
Chairman, Supervisory Board: António de Almeida
CEO: António L. G. N. Mexia
Executive Director and CFO: Nuno Alves

Competitors:
Electrabel
Endesa S.A.
IBERDROLA

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• Eastern Daily Press, a UK regional newspaper
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• Electronic Document Professional, a designation for professionals in the electronic document industry
• Electronic Dream Plant, a British manufacturer of electronic musical instruments
• Emotionally Disturbed Person, a person suffering from an acute episode of mental illness
• Energias de Portugal, a Portuguese energy company, that includes EDP Renováveis
• English Democrats Party, a political party
• Esquisse d'un Programme, a mathematical monograph by Alexandre Grothendieck
• Ethylene Diamine Pyrocatechol, a common chemical in microelectromechanical fabrication
• European Democratic Party, a centrist and social-liberal European political party
• Event-driven programming, a software development technique

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