Reuters
State-controlled utility EDF signed 500,000 extra retail clients in the French electricity market between August 2021 and May 2022 and it aims to double the core profit of its energy services division by 2030, said a company official. Marc Benayoun, executive director in charge of EDF's customers, services and territories arm, told a news conference that EDF's number of retail customers had risen to 26.2 million in May this year from 25.7 million in August 2021. EDF said the rise in its customers had come as a surge in energy prices, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, had led some rivals to change their retail offers or even halt them.