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Sustainability in the Dutch Power Sector
Fact Sheet Series – Update 2009
4 Eneco
4.1 Basic company information
Eneco Holding N.V. is a non-listed public limited liability company with its official seat in
Rotterdam. Eneco was founded in its current form in 1995, when a number of older energy
companies merged. 61 The company has a focus on the Dutch and Belgian markets, where it
operates in the fields of production, trade, distribution, and supply of gas, electricity and heat.
It is currently also developing new renewable capacity in France and the UK.
Eneco Holding holds three subsidiaries: Eneco B.V., Joulz, and Stedin. Eneco B.V. deals
with the generation of electricity, distribution of heat, trading activities and heat, gas and
electricity supply in the Netherlands and abroad. 62 Joulz is an energy infrastructure company
that also constructs and maintains public lighting systems, among other things. Stedin is
Eneco’s gas and electricity grid company.
Along with Essent and Nuon, Eneco was traditionally one of the top three network operators
in the Netherlands and is the only one that is still owned by Dutch municipalities. The
company has 5,500 employees, and in 2008 had a turnover of almost € 5 billion.
4.2 Installed capacity and electricity generation in Europe
Contrary to previous years, Eneco no longer provides information about its installed capacity
or electricity it generates in its annual report or on its website. The figures given here come
from direct correspondence between Eneco and SOMO. Figure 6 shows the relative fuel mix
of Eneco’s installed capacity in 2008.
61
Eneco website, Eneco, Organisatie, “Historie”, no date,
http://corporatenl.eneco.nl/Organisatie/historie/Pages/Default.aspx (15-07-09).
62
Eneco website, Eneco, Organisatie, “Organigram”, no date,
http://corporatenl.eneco.nl/Organisatie/Pages/profiel_en_merkwaarden.aspx (15-07-09).
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