Top 10 Power Plant Owners in Europe by Capacity

Electricite de France SA, Enel SpA, Iberdrola SA, Engie SA, and Fortum Corp are the top 5 power plant owners in Europe by capacity as of March 31, 2022. Cumulatively, the top 10 power plant owners in Europe had an active capacity of 515,737 MW as of March 31, 2022. In active capacity, the top was the Electricite de France SA (116,977 MW) followed by Enel SpA (82,272 MW), and Iberdrola SA (56,306 MW), while the lowest capacity was registered by Energias de Portugal SA (22,659 MW). In terms of the geographical split, 3 out of 10 of Europe’s top power plant owners are based in Russia, 2 plant owners are based in France, while the remaining are based in Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany, and Portugal. They employed a total of 874,097 people in 2021. France-based Electricite de France SA is the leading power plant owner in Europe) (by capacity). The company reported revenues of $99,871 million for the fiscal year ended December 2021 (FY2021), an increase of 26.9% over FY2020 due to a higher nuclear output in France, which increased by 27TWh to reach 268.2TWh at the end of September 2021 and the significant rise in gas prices and additional volumes sold estimated at €2.8 billion. The company is an integrated electricity provider. It carries out generation, transmission, distribution, energy supply, trading, energy services, and other related services. The company produces electricity using nuclear, hydro, gas, fuel oil, coal, and other renewable sources. It is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and employs 163,423 people in FY2021. Italy-based Enel SpA (Enel) is another leading power plant owner in Europe) (by capacity). Enel generates, transports, and distributes electricity. It also sells and trades electricity and natural gas, green certificates, and CO2 emission rights. The company produces electricity using hydro, nuclear, wind, geothermal, solar, thermoelectric and other renewable sources. The company reported revenues of $99,449 million for the fiscal year ended December 2021 (FY2021), an increase of 32.2% over the previous year.