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Luminus (former names: ''Société productrice d'électricité'', SPE, SPE-Luminus, and EDF Luminus) is the second largest electricity producer and energy supplier on the Belgian
Luminus sells electricity and gas to 1.8 million private and professional customers, bringing its commercial market share to more than 20%. The company has approximately 2,000 employees. With an installed generation capacity of 2,090 MW, the company accounts for 14% of the national electricity generation.
Luminus owns
energy market
An energy market is a type of commodity market on which electricity, heat, and fuel products are traded. Natural gas and electricity are examples of products traded on an energy market. Other energy commodities include: oil, coal, carbon emission ...
. Its main shareholder is Électricité de France
Électricité de France SA (; ), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational corporation, multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France. Headquartered in Paris, with €139.7 billion in sales in 2023, EDF ope ...
with a 68.6% stake.
History
The company was established as municipalities joint utility ''Société productrice d'électricité'' (SPE) in 1978. In July 2008Centrica
Centrica plc is a British  multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
It is the largest supplier of gas to domestic customers in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest suppliers ...
acquired its majority stake in SPE by buying out Gaz de France.
In 2009, Centrica sold its shares to EDF.
In September 2010, SPE Luminus as a subsidiary of EDF, took over the sales activities of EDF Belgium. Grégoire Dallemagne took up office as CEO on 1 September 2011.
On 23 November 2011, the company was renamed EDF Luminus to become Luminus in April 2019.
Operations
Luminus sells electricity and gas to 1.8 million private and professional customers, bringing its commercial market share to more than 20%. The company has approximately 2,000 employees. With an installed generation capacity of 2,090 MW, the company accounts for 14% of the national electricity generation.
Luminus owns gas-fired power plant
A gas-fired power plant, sometimes referred to as gas-fired power station, natural gas power plant, or methane gas power plant, is a thermal power station that burns natural gas to generate electricity. Gas-fired power plants generate almost a ...
s (both CCGT and classic thermal power), wind farm
A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
s and hydraulic power stations on various sites in Wallonia
Wallonia ( ; ; or ), officially the Walloon Region ( ; ), is one of the three communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, regions of Belgium—along with Flemish Region, Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the c ...
and Flanders
Flanders ( or ; ) is the Dutch language, Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, la ...
. The company also owns stakes in nuclear plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power s ...
s. It operates CCGT plants at Angleur, Ghent-Ringvaart and Seraing
Seraing (; ) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality and City status in Belgium, city of Wallonia located in the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Boncelles, Jemeppe-sur-M ...
, and classic thermal plants in Angleur, Gent-Ham, Izegem and Monsin. Until March 2012, Luminus also exploited a classic thermal plant in Harelbeke
Harelbeke (; ) is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Harelbeke proper and the towns of Bavikhove and Hulste. On January 1, 2019, Harelbeke had a total population of 28 ...
. Luminus' seven hydroelectric power plants are located on Meuse
The Meuse or Maas is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a total length of .
History
From 1301, the upper ...
and Sambre
The Sambre () is a river in northern France and in Wallonia, Belgium. It is a left-bank tributary of the Meuse, which it joins in the Wallonian capital Namur.
The source of the Sambre is near Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, in the Aisne department. ...
rivers. The company is Belgium's #1 in terms of onshore wind energy (189 wind turbines, with a total capacity of 448 MW.
See also
*Energy in Belgium
Energy in Belgium describes World energy resources and consumption, energy and Electricity generation, electricity production, consumption and import in Belgium.
It is governed by the energy policy of Belgium, which is divided between several ...
References
External links
* {{official, www.luminus.be Electric power companies of Belgium Companies based in Brussels Électricité de France