Companhia Paulista de Força e Luz - CPFL Energia (BM&F Bovespa: CPFE3 / ) is the largest non state-owned group of electric energy generation and distribution in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 and the third biggest brazilian utility company, after Eletrobras

Eletrobrás

Eletrobras is a major Brazilian power utility. It's also Latin America's biggest power utility company, tenth largest in the world and is also the fourth largest clean energy company in the world. It is currently expanding its operations in the continent, as well as in Africa. The company's full...

 and CEMIG

CEMIG

CEMIG is a Brazilian power company headquartered in Belo Horizonte capital of Minas Gerais. The company is one of the largest power generator and distributor in Brazil being responsible for 12% of the national distribution....

. The corporation is composed by CPFL Brasil, CPFL Piratininga, CPFL Paulista, CPFL Geração and SEMESA. Each of these companies operate as a holding company that owns dozens of other companies. Its headquarters are located in Campinas

Campinas

Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....

, the third largest city in state of São Paulo.

The Brazilian investment company Bradespar

Bradespar

Bradespar is a Brazilian holding company headquartered in São Paulo. The company was formed in 2000 by Banco Bradesco in order to allow the bank to spin off some of its industrial investments.In 2005, the company began to hold large holdings in mining company Vale and Utility company CPFL, which...

 holds a large participation in CPFL stock.

See also

• Eletrobrás
  Eletrobrás
  Eletrobras is a major Brazilian power utility. It's also Latin America's biggest power utility company, tenth largest in the world and is also the fourth largest clean energy company in the world. It is currently expanding its operations in the continent, as well as in Africa. The company's full...
  
  
• Eletropaulo
  Eletropaulo
  AES Eletropaulo is a major Brazilian power distributor in the state of São Paulo, created in the breakup of the old state-owned power distribution company Eletropaulo that monopolized electricity distribution in São Paulo from 1981 to 1999...
  
  
• Itaipu Binacional
• Furnas
• Elektro

External links

• CPFL Home Page

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