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PRESENTATION OF EDF GROUP Description of the Group's activities

Energy report 1.4.4.1.2.1 2018 Summary

Pursuant to Decree 2018-580 of 4 July 2018, RTE is now subject to the economic and financial supervision of the French State and an Auditor General, appointed by Decree, now attends meetings of the Supervisory Board. RTE’s Executive Board is made up of five members, who perform their work under the supervision of the Supervisory Board, within the limits fixed by the French Energy Code and RTE’s articles of association. After the consent of the Energy Minister, the Supervisory Board appoints the Chairman of the Executive Board and upon the latter’s proposal, it appoints the other members of the Executive Board. RTE’s activities 1.4.4.1.2 In France, RTE manages the public transmission network and carries out its missions under the conditions set out in model specifications approved by applicable decree until 2051. In accordance with the French Energy Code, transmission network operators must be certified according to a process associating the CRE and the European Commission, which aims to ensure that the entity concerned fulfils the conditions of independence set out by this Code. RTE obtained certification from the CRE in 2012 as an ITO (Independent Transmission Operator). Following the change in its share ownership, RTE applied to the CRE in 2017 to reexamine its certification and thereby maintained its certified status following a CRE decision dated 11 January 2018. Thus RTE manages the transmission infrastructure, guarantees access to the transmission network and manages energy flows. RTE has had to face a variety of challenges in its mission as an electricity transmission network operator: integration of the European market, extensive restructuring of the generation fleet, societal changes reinforcing the constraints of integrating new infrastructure of general interest and maintenance of its industrial facilities to meet the requirements of customers and the community at large.

In 2018, gross consumption stood at close to 478TWh, i.e. -0.8% compared with the previous year. This decline is due to generally milder temperatures, particularly at the beginning and end of the year, lower economic growth than in 2017 and labour movements in rail transport in spring. Electricity consumption reached a peak of 96.6GW on 28 February 2018 at 7pm when the late cold spell hit France. This represents the third highest consumption peak ever recorded in France. Excluding the energy sector, consumption adjusted for climatic variations and calendar effects reached 474TWh in 2018, stable compared with 2017 (-0.3%). The main structural factors behind this stabilisation are lower economic growth than in 2017 and the effects of consumption management. Consumption of major industrial customers directly connected to the public transmission network amounts to 66.2TWh. This represented a fall in volume of 1.8% compared with 2017, mainly due to major labour movements in the rail transport sector and the incident which occurred at the site of an industrial customer in the metal sector. Equivalent outage time is an indicator used to measure the quality of supply of electricity by RTE. RTE's indicators on supply continuity in 2018 are still provisional. Based on information available to date, the equivalent outage time is 2 min 59 sec (1) for the equivalent outage time (the target set by the CRE is 2 min 48 s) and 0.42 for outage frequency (the target set by the CRE is 0.46).

Simplified energy flows on the RTE network (1)

In TWh

600

548.6

529.4

Export balance of physical exchanges (2) Energy withdrawn for puming

63 7.3

500

40.2 7.1

400

300

Generation

478.3

Deliveries

482.0

Deliveries

200

100

Injections

Withdrawals

Injections

Withdrawals

2018

2017

(1) 2018 provisional data (the final data on the electricity generation for 2018 will be available on RTE’s website in july 2019: www.rte-france.com). (2) Including water right and exchanges via distribution network.

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is again the largest exporter in Europe The French balance of trade amounted to 60.2TWh in 2018, an increase compared with the previous two years. The import volume is 26.1TWh, and export volume 86.3TWh. France is again the largest exporter in Europe. The position of cross-border contractual exchanges in 2018 is as follows: Spain: the trade balance with Spain remains in large surplus with 12TWh. ■ However, it fell slightly compared with the previous year, due in particular to better hydropower output in the Iberian Peninsula; Central and Western Europe (Germany and Belgium): although the balance ■ showed a deficit the last two years, the trend is reversed in 2018 with a surplus balance of 6.1TWh. This was due in particular to better availability of the French

to foster the energy transition At 31 December 2018, the installed wind turbine capacity amounted to 15,108MW. This is an increase of 11.2% compared with 2017. Wind power generation stood at 27.8TWh in 2018, up 15.3% compared with 2017. This increase is due not only to the increase in installed net capacity but also to particularly favourable weather conditions in 2018. With 873MW of new solar capacity connected in mainland France, installed solar capacity reached 8,527MW at 31 December 2018. This represented an increase of 11.4% compared with 2017. Solar power generation, which stood at 10.2TWh in 2018, is up 11.3% compared with 2017, boosted by both the increase in installed capacity and favourable weather conditions.

The value of the equivalent outage time for 2018 can change after the publication of this document following the classification of certain incidents at the end of the year as (1) exceptional events.

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