Luminus
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Luminus (former names: Société productrice d'électricité, SPE, SPE-Luminus, and EDF Luminus) is the second largest electricity producer and energy supplier on the Belgian energy market. Its main shareholder is Électricité de France with a 68.6% stake.[1]
History
The company was established as municipalities joint utility Société productrice d'électricité (SPE) in 1978.[2] In July 2008 Centrica acquired its majority stake in SPE by buying out Gaz de France.[3] In 2009, Centrica sold its shares to EDF.[4][5] In September 2010, SPE Luminus as a subsidiary of EDF, took over the sales activities of EDF Belgium.[6] Grégoire Dallemagne took up office as CEO on 1 September 2011.[7] On 23 November 2011, the company was renamed EDF Luminus to become Luminus in April 2019.[8]
Operations
Luminus sells electricity and gas to 1.8 million private and professional customers, bringing its commercial market share to more than 20%.[9] The company has approximately 2,000 employees.[10] With an installed generation capacity of 2,090 MW, the company accounts for 14% of the national electricity generation.
Luminus owns gas-fired power plants (both CCGT and classic thermal power), wind farms and hydraulic power stations on various sites in Wallonia and Flanders.[10] The company also owns stakes in nuclear plants.[11] It operates CCGT plants at Angleur, Ghent-Ringvaart and Seraing, and classic thermal plants in Angleur, Gent-Ham, Izegem and Monsin.[12]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Until March 2012, Luminus also exploited a classic thermal plant in Harelbeke.[13] Luminus' seven hydroelectric power plants are located on Meuse and Sambre rivers.[14]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The company is Belgium's #1 in terms of onshore wind energy (189 wind turbines, with a total capacity of 448 MW.[15]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[16] Template:Clearleft
See also
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