Andrew wrote:
Err, are you confusing EDF the state-owned operator of some of Britains
Nukes, and EDF *Energy* which was sold (by EDF) in 2012 to a Hong Kong
based zillionaire (but still uses the EDF moniker for the retail
operations) ?. This company is actually called UK Power networks or
something similar. It is nothing to do with the French government. quite
why they are allowed to trade as 'EDF' is a mystery.

That doesn't seem to square with wikipedia - it appears EDF Energy is owned
by the French EDF (Electricite de France). EDF Energy controls the nukes.
EDF Energy also has retail accounts of 5.7 million customers.

EDF Energy Networks was the distribution arm which was sold to a company
owned by Li Ka Shing (of Port of Felixstowe and Three mobile, among many
other interests), and renamed UK Power Networks.

UKPN is the Distribution Network Operator for much of southern England, but
doesn't have retail customers. They trade as UKPN, not EDF-something.

So if you get a bill from EDF the power may be generated by EDF nukes but
delivered along UKPN wires (if you live in the SE), and it's UKPN you call
if you have a power cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDF_Energy

Before EDF Energy, it was known as SEEBoard and after privatisation
was bought by EDF (France).

Seems like it also had the distribution rights of London Electricity, SWEB,
and Eastern Electricity. I think that if you never switched and are in the
London, SE or Eastern regions, you would have ended up at EDF.

Theo