Engie

Engie

Type	Société Anonyme
Predecessor	Gaz de France Suez
Founded	July 22, 2008; 6 years ago
Headquarters	La Défense, Courbevoie, France
Key people	Gérard Mestrallet (Chairman and CEO), Jean-François Cirelli (Vice-Chairman and President)
Industry	Electric utility
Products	Natural gas production, sale and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, hydroelectricity, wind power, energy trading
Revenue	€90.7 billion (2011)
Operating income	€8.795 billion (2010)
Net income	€4.616 billion (2010)
Total assets	€184.66 billion (end 2010)
Total equity	€70.72 billion (end 2010)
Employees	236,120 (average, 2010)
Website	engie.com

Engie (known as GDF Suez prior to April 2015) is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution.

History

Suez was a French multinational corporation, operating in the fields of waste management, energy supply through the manipulation of electricity and natural gas, and water treatment/purification. It was a result of the business merger between the Compagnie financière de Suez, the french corporation that built the Suez Canal, and Lyonnaise des Eaux, a leading French water company. In 2001, the water and waste assets of Suez were developed into a separate company, Suez Environment. In July 2008, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux became GDF Suez, after a corporate merger with the french utilities corporation Gaz de France. The company Suez does not exist as such anymore, but it continues its operations through its two main corporate ramifications: Suez Environmental and GDF Suez. To this day, it is reported as the world's second largest utilities company in the world, as it employs over 260,000 workers worlwide, and in 2007 reported revenues of over $130 billion USD (2007).

U.S. Coal Plants

Plant	State	Year(s) Built	Capacity
Red Hills Generation Facility	MS	2001	514 MW

Company History

• 1880: Establishment of La Société Lyonnaise des Eaux et de l'Eclairage and management of the water supply in Cannes, France.

• 1919: La Société Industrielle des Transports Automobiles (SITA) is set up in Paris to meet the city's needs in terms of waste collection.

• 1939: Establishment of Degrémont, a water treatment company in Paris.

• 1948: Degrémont builds Egypt’s first drinking water treatment plant.

• 1960: SITA rapidly expands thanks to numerous contracts in the Paris suburbs.

• 1975: First desalination plant by reverse ormosis in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• 1989: SITA begins operations in Asia, first in Malaysia and later in Hong Kong.

• 1997: La Lyonnaise des Eaux merges with Compagnie financière de Suez, creating Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux.

• 2001: Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux becomes SUEZ ENVIRONMENTal . Water operations in France are grouped together under the name Lyonnaise des Eaux.

• 2002: Grouping together of the environmental operations of SUEZ within one branch

• 2008: Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux became GDF Suez, after a corporate merger with the french utilities corporation Gaz de France

• 2011: GDF Suez enters negotiations with Duke Energy, a major US utility, to buy Duke's approximately $18.8 billion in assets in Latin America.

Historical Financial Information

(All information in USD unless indicated otherwise)

	2006	2005
Revenue (USD)	$59,689,000,000	$50,274,000,000
Gross Profit	$21,861,000,000	$18,790,700,000
Operating Income	$7,086,000,000	$5,324,000,000
Total Net Income	$3,542,000,000	$2,081,000,000

Business Strategy

According to its website, Suez' mission is to:

• Offer "innovative energy solutions".

• Ensure "the security of Europe’s energy supply, creating the neccesary infrastructure".

• Assist "individuals, cities and businesses in developing a responsible relationship towards energy".

• To place sustainable development at the heart of its businesses, developing renewable energy, and fighting against global warming.

• Develop synergies between its businesses in energy, energy services and the environment.

Latin American energy assets

GDF SUEZ Energy Latin America has energy projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, and Peru.

Suez's assets in Brazil include a stake in the Jirau hydroelectric dam and control of Tractebel Energia, Brazil's biggest private electricity generator, with 6,000 MW of capacity, Valor said. Suez has about 3,170 MW of capacity in the rest of Latin America and is building another 1,200 MW in the region.

Political Contributions/Lobbying

In 2008, Suez spent $130,000 USD in lobbying, and in 2006-2007, its lobbying expenditures amounted to $160,000 USD.

Issued lobbied included: Securities and Investment, Miscellaneous Energy, and Electric Utilities,

Corporate Accountability

Suez has been heavily criticized by many international campaigs, led by various NGO'S and human rights associations, citing the corporation for a range of abusive practices, especially in the fields of water management and privatization policies; amongst many allegations , Suez has been accused of:

• Refusing to extend water services to poor neighborhoods
• Cutting off water in zones where people are unable to pay
• Non-compliance with contractual requirements for maintenance and investment
• Raising rates to unaffordable levels
• Threatening legal action when contracts are terminated

• The NGO Food and Water Watch set up a website so that people would be able to directly contact Suez's CEO Gerard Mestrallet and be able to "challenges Suez's irresponsible and dangerous actions around the world". Please click here to view the website and contact Suez directly

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• Controversy over water privatization policies in Mexico and low quality water

2003

Suez, the second-largest water company in the world, has over 100 concession and joint corporate ventures worldwide. In Cancun, Mexico, the water and sewage system is run by AguaCan, a company 50% controlled by Suez. The corporate giant has been under fire for the low quality of the drinking water, which forces locals to have to buy containers of purified water, given the uselessness of the running water. Community activist Arturo Moss also claims that not only is the water far from usable, but a vast majority of locals do not have access to many of the basic services that the company claims to provide. "In Cancun, in the hotel zone they have water 24 hours a day, but here in the urban areas the service is very limited: only for 2 or 3 hours a day".

Original Press Release

Environment

In June 2009 GDF Suez SA, through its subsidiary Electrabel S.A. (Electrabel), began construction of an 800 megawatt (MW) combined biomass/coal fired power station in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The project represents a total investment of EUR1.2 billion. The power station will have an energy efficiency of around 46%. The power station can burn half coal and half biomass, and is scheduled for completion in 2013.

Business Scope

Suez' corporate activities can be divided into six operational business lines, comprising five in energy and one in environment, seen in the following table:

Click here for an in-depth look into each of Suez' operational business lines

Financial Information (as of DATE)

Presented in USD, unless indicated otherwise.

FINANCIAL DATA FOR GDF SUEZ

	2008 (half year results)
Revenue (USD)	$60,015,327,840.89
Operating Income	$7,657,227,019.98
EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization)	$11,339,640,491.72

GDF SUEZ SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE

FINANCIAL DATA FOR SUEZ ENVIRONMENT

	2008 (end of September)
Revenue (USD)	12,697,771,868.89
EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization)	$2,153,651,253.28

SUEZ ENVIRONMENT SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE

Governance

GDF SUEZ

Composition of the Board of Directors

The board of directors is made up of 24 permanent members, subdivided as follows:

• 13 directors elected by the General Shareholders’ Meeting

• 7 directors representing the State, appointed by order of the French State

• 4 directors who are also employees, as required under Clause 8-1 of the French Law of August 6, 1986 (3 elected by employees, 1 representing employee shareholders).

Also with seats on the Board:

• 2 observers elected by the General Shareholders’ Meeting

• 1 French Government commissioner

• 1 representative of the Central Works Council.

SUEZ ENVIRONMENT

The SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Board of Directors is comprised of 18 members, including:

9 representatives of the GDF SUEZ Group,

5 directors representing the other shareholders of the agreement: Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (2), Areva (1), CNP (1) and Sofina (1),

4 independent directors, jointly nominated by the parties to the shareholders' agreement as proposed by the Chairman of the Board.

• Gérard Mestrallet: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GDF Suez Chairman of the Board of Directors of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT

• Jean-Louis Chaussade: Chief Executive Officer

• Gérard Lamarche: Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of GDF Suez

Please click here to view the entire Board of Directors and list of executives for SUEZ ENVIRONMENT

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