Abengoa (MCE: ABG) is an international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, generating electricity from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.

Abengoa specialises in two high-growth sectors – energy and environment – in which it is an international leader. Abengoa carries out its engineering, infrastructure concessions and industrial production activities in both sectors.

Alstom Grid is an expert in grid management, bringing power to its customers’ projects for over 100 years. It ranks among the top 3 in electrical transmission sector, with an annual sales turnover of more than €4 billion in 2011, and has 20,000 employees and over 90 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide. At the heart of the development of Smart Grid, Alstom Grid offers products, services and integrated energy management solutions across the full energy value chain – from power generation, through transmission and distribution grids and to the large end user.

www.alstom.com

Areva supplies its clients with low-carbon electricity production solutions. 

World leader in the nuclear industry, Areva is able to offer a complete and unique offer that covers every stage of the fuel’s lifecycle, the design and construction of nuclear reactors and all associated services. 

The group is also developing its activities in the renewable energy sector- wind, solar, hydrogen cell and storage and is aiming to become one of the top three in the world in this sector by 2012.

www.areva.com

Atos Worldgrid is a specialized entity of Atos, an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and 78,500 employees in 42 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional services, consulting and technology services, systems integration and managed services.

Atos Worldgrid is  delivering sophisticated integration projects and real time smart energy solutions to Energy and Utilities companies across the power, water, oil & gas value chains. With 1,500 engineers and over 30 years experience, Atos Worldgrid operates in more than 15 countries. It has in particular equipped 70 nuclear power plants with its supervision and command & control software in France, UK, Russia and China and delivered the world’s largest smart metering system.

www.atos.net/atosworldgrid

CDC Infrastructure, a subsidiary of CDC, acquires holdings mostly in mature stock, so-called “brownfield” shares but also in new “greenfield” projects. CDC Infrastructure operates mainly in France within the energy, telecoms and environmental activity (water, waste management) sectors.

CDC Infrastructure currently has a portfolio of 14 shareholdings (including SANEF, the Millau viaduct, GRT Gaz and LGV SEA) amounting to one billion Euros.  Its aim in the medium-term is to increase the value of its portfolio to 1.5 billion Euros.

Around 500 million Euros have already been invested in 5 projects during 2011, including the Bordeaux to Tours TGV line concession and the GRT gas pipelines in France.

http://www.cdcinfrastructure.com/

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EDF is the world’s leading nuclear energy company, with solid positions in major European countries. We are committed to investing in sustainable industrial growth. Worldwide, our teams are working together in the respect of five key values: respect for individuals, environmental responsibility, striving for excellence, commitment to the community, necessity of integrity. All Group companies are committed to our sustainable development strategy:  rising to the challenge of climate change and protecting biodiversity, ensuring energy access and implementing local solutions, advancing the debate on sustainable development.

www.edf.com

Major player in the electricity supply sector and in IT systems, and part of the Groupe GDF-Suez, Ineo offers its public and private clients global solutions from the design stage, through implementation and maintenance.

With more than 14,500 employees and 300 sites throughout France, INEO supplies engineering, installation and systems and services integration in the industrial and tertiary electricity sectors, in public lighting, in transport, telecoms, production and distribution of energy, global security and outsourcing infrastructures.

www.ineo-gdfsuez.com

Nemo is controlled by CIE Spa, the energy subsidiary on the Gavio group which is the second largest motorway concession in Italy.  Its goal is to develop and manage a network of high-voltage direct current merchant lines between Italy, Northern Europe and the Mediterranean rim countries.   As part of the Gavio group, one of the leading logistics companies in Italy, Nemo has access to the necessary advantages to make full use of the synergies between the road and rail infrastructures.

www.nemointerconnectors.it

Nexans, world leader in the cable industry, supplies a huge range of cables, cabling systems and solutions to the infrastructure, industry, construction and local data network markets.  As part of its transmission and distribution activities, Nexans offers a portfolio of first-rate technologies: aerial, underground and underwater cables supplied to energy networks throughout the world.  In the area of high-voltage cables, the group supplies key in hand solutions ranging from engineering, through production and installation of allied services.  Nexans is heavily involved in interconnecting national networks and in linking with the new renewable energy sources, and is also developing its activities in the very high voltage sector.

www.nexans.com

ONE (Office National de l’Électricité) lies at the heart of a strategic public service that is crucial to the country’s competitiveness; it is the main player in Morocco’s electricity sector.

Set up in 1963 as a public company of an industrial and commercial nature, ONEE’s purpose is to satisfy Morocco’s electricity demands at the best possible price and quality of service.

With more than 8,700 employees and more than 4.2 million customers, ONEE carries out activities focused on the electricity industry- production, transport and distribution. 

www.one.ma

As an infrastructure developer, Pan Med focuses on renewable energy plants in Jordan to fulfill domestic needs and to export electricity regionally. 

As a project developer advising international consortiums seeking to penetrate the MENA region, Pan Med’s vast knowledge, connections and experience produce reliable feasibility studies and risk assessments on technical, legal, financial, social and environmental aspects.

The company also offers energy efficiency design and conversion services to Jordanian industries.

www.panmedenergy.com

Prysmian Group is active in more than 50 countries and has annual sales of around 7 billion Euros through its two brands, Prysmian and Draka. 

With 22,000 employees in 98 plants, 22 R&D centres, the Prysmian Group has track record of leading technology and innovation in all key segments. The Prysmian Group creates and installs cable solutions that meet clients’ needs. 

The Prysmian Group contributes daily to developing the planet’s vital energy transport and distribution infrastructures and communication networks- for example cabling the world’s tallest building and installing the world’s deepest underwater cable.

http://www.prysmian.com/

Red Eléctrica de España, S.A., established in 1985 was the first company in the world exclusively  dedicated to the transmission of electricity and the operation of electricity systems. Red Eléctrica, as the system operator, ensures the continuity and security of the power supply and the proper coordination of the production and transmission system, performing its functions based on the principles of transparency, objectiveness and independence. In addition, Red Eléctrica is manager of the transmission grid and acts as sole electricity distributor.

Red Eléctrica de España is one of the two dependant subsidiaries of the holding company Red Eléctrica Corporación, together with Red Eléctrica Internacional, which is responsible for the Group’s activities internationally.

www.ree.es

REN’s core business electricity and gas transmission:

• Electricity – transmission in EHV and the overall technical management of the national electricity grid.
• Natural Gas – high-pressure transport and overall technical management of the national natural gas system, including reception, storage and regasification of LNG and underground storage.

Other activities include REN Trading, which manages power purchase agreements not liable for early termination; RENTELECOM, since 2002, exploits the surplus capacity of the security telecommunications system of the transmission and transport system; REN Serviços provides third parties with consulting and/or engineering services in the energy sector, on a commercial basis.

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RTE, is the operator of the French electricity transmission system, and a key actor in the European electricity market.

RTE operates, maintains and develops the largest high and very high voltage network in Europe.: 100,000 km of lines up to 400,000 volts, with 45 cross-border lines.

http://www.rte-france.com/en

Siemens Energy Sector is active across the entire energy chain, offering a complete range of prodcuts services and solutions for producing, transporting and distributing energy.

Siemens is a world market leader in the transmission of direct current electricity.  This technology, extensively field-tested by Siemens, enables it to offer reliable and economical solutions for transporting electricity over long distances or interconnecting unsynchronised networks.

www.siemens.fr

Soitec (Euronext Paris) is a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials at the frontier of the most exciting energy and electronic challenges. Headquartered in France, the company employs around 1,500 people worldwide and reported consolidated sales of 340 million dollars for 2012-2013.  Innovation has always been at the heart of Soitec’s strategy. In the solar energy market, the company acquired Concentrix Solar in 2009 and rapidly became a world-leading supplier of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems. CPV is based on a pioneering technology originally developed at the Fraunhofer ISE (Germany), the largest solar research institute in Europe. It is perfectly suited for hot and arid regions with high DNI. Soitec CPV modules feature a 31.8% efficiency, more than twice as high as that of conventional photovoltaic modules. In September 2013, Soitec and its partners announced a world record, with a new solar cell achieving an efficiency of 44.7%. Soitec has CPV installations in 18 countries worldwide and a pipeline of projects totaling several hundreds of megawatts.

www.soitec.com

TAQA is an integrated full-service energy group with over 15 years of experience in efficient energy solutions, gas transmission and distribution, power generation and distribution and oil marketing, operating in 5 MENA countries; UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Libya and Sudan, targeting Kenya & Uganda markets. It’s a group of acquisitions of 22 companies, working in 3 main areas:

• Natural gas distribution: 4 BCMY of natural gas in Egypt, for about 750,000 customers and are currently in the process of connecting additional customers to reach 1.5 million.
• Power production and distribution: 850 contracted MW.
• Petroleum product distribution: to reach 45 stations in Egypt, within next two years.
• Renewable energy and Grid, TAQA Arabia already invests in Solar & Wind and expects opportunities in the Trans-Mediterranean Grid through high voltage submarine and/or land cable.

Terna is a leading energy transmission grid operator: with over 63,000 km of HV lines throughout the Italian territory, Terna is the owner of the National High Voltage Electricity Transmission Grid, the first in Europe among independent grid operators and the seventh in the world. Terna is responsible for energy transmission and dispatching throughout the entire territory and therefore for the safe management of energy flows in Italy, guaranteeing the balance between electricity supply and demand, 365 days a year and 24 hours a day.

http://www.terna.it/default/home_en.aspx

TuNur Ltd. is a joint-venture company between Nur Energie (www.tunur.tn) and a group of Tunisian investors led by TOP Group.

TuNur’s mission is to develop the first utility-scale solar export project between Tunisia and Europe. The TuNur project has already achieved significant milestones, including the identification of a site in Tunisia, long-term measurement of solar radiation at the site, identification of an economically and technically viable cable route between Tunisia and Italy, and, most recently, a 2000 MW grid connection offer from Terna S.p.A, the Italian grid operator, at an optimal landing point in central Italy.