nuclear plants, and continued delivery of renewable generation projects. (EDF Energy, 2014)
EDF Energy Internal Analysis EDF能源内部分析
The strengths of EDF Energy come from its strong financial support and integration benefits from its parent group. The large coverage of area and population of EDF Energy helps it to win the marginal investment reduces in cost. In addition, the businesses of its parent group cover large number of production areas in energy supply chain including generation, trading, transmission, distribution, supply, thus gaining advantage of EDF Energy in procurement capabilities, pan-European dealings for major customers, international expertise and access to significant R&D resources. This advantage helps EDF Energy a lot in controlling costs of production and fundamental facilities building and extending its operation to other areas. What’s more, EDF Energy shares the same customer base with its parent group and it offers added-value products which is also part of its parent group’s products, which also helps EDF group to reduce investments in marketing and customer service. Since the parent group of EDF Energy has implemented vertical integration well in energy industry and also shares these resources with EDF Energy, it is unnecessary for EDF Energy to follow this strategy for it could lead to repeated investments on facilities building which are huge in energy industry. Besides, since energy industry, quite different from other industry, has close relationships with national security and should offer power guarantee to sustain many other industries, it are regulated by government of different countries. Some countries such as Germany even banned the development of nuclear power. As a result, EDF energy has followed the policies made by governments regarding to energy development and production. The core competences and distinctive capabilities EDF Energy possesses are as follows: stable and reliable supply based on its advanced facilities building and rich resources shared with its parent group, large amount of financial support to expand its businesses, clear and sustainable business value which are also shared in its employees, excellent customer service networks, long-term development expansion strategy and strong implementation power. Reference: http://www.edfenergy.com/about-us/about-edf-energy/who-owns-us.shtml http://www.edfenergy.com/about-us/about-edf-energy/business-strategy.shtml