House of the year – electricity

Awards 2004

EDF Trading (EDFT) is one of the companies that has helped the European power market through some rough patches in the past year or two, says a European power broker based in London.

The trading arm of French utility EDF is a leader in electricity trading in continental Europe, alongside participants such as German company RWE Trading and Swedish energy firm Vattenfall, he says. Such companies have allowed the market to develop despite the exit of firms from Europe, such as Enron, El Pa