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- EDP Renováveis, S.A. (EDPR) develops, constructs, operates and maintains wind and solar power plants and energy storage facilities worldwide; the company generates electricity from onshore and offshore wind farms, utility-scale and distributed solar photovoltaic installations, and battery energy storage systems; it sells power through long-term power purchase agreements, merchant markets and renewable energy certificates. EDPR, a subsidiary of EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A., was established in 2007 and maintains its headquarters in Madrid, Spain, with a registered office in Oviedo; it operates across 28 to 29 markets in Europe (including Spain, Portugal, France, United Kingdom, Poland, Italy, Romania, Belgium, Greece and Germany), North America (United States, Canada, Mexico), South America (primarily Brazil, with presence in Chile and Colombia) and Asia-Pacific (Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam). As of mid-2025, EDPR reports approximately 20 gigawatts of installed capacity, predominantly wind (around 78%) and solar (22%), positioning it as the fourth-largest renewable energy producer globally by certain metrics. In recent developments, EDPR closed a major asset rotation in October 2025 by selling a 49% equity stake in a 1.6 gigawatt U.S. renewable portfolio to Ares for proceeds contributing to its approximately 2 billion euro target; it sold a 104 megawatt direct current solar portfolio in Spain to Tion Renewables in June 2025 and a 149.6 megawatt wind portfolio in Greece to Principia in August 2025; additionally, Plenitude acquired two U.S. photovoltaic plants and a storage facility from EDPR in early 2025, while EDPR signed an agreement in November 2025 for a 500 million U.S. dollar solar project in Wisconsin; the company unveiled its 2026-2028 business plan in November 2025 emphasizing U.S. growth, with plans to invest 7.5 billion euros in wind, solar and related assets amid plans for 2 gigawatts of new capacity commissioning in 2025.