Électricité de France S.A. (EDF Group) is a French electric utility company. The company, owned mainly by the French State, is the world’s biggest electricity generator and provides energy to 38.5 million customers worldwide. EDF Group employees 158,200 people and has 78 active nuclear reactors in use across the globe, 58 of which are located in France. EDF Group was founded in 1946 and the company is currently headquartered in Paris, France.