Hrvatska elektroprivreda d.d. (HEP d.d.)

Hrvatska elektroprivreda d.d. (HEP d.d.) is Croatia’s national energy company and the parent of HEP Group, a state‑owned joint stock company headquartered in Zagreb and fully owned by the Republic of Croatia. For more than a century it has been responsible for the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity, and for several decades has also provided district heating and natural gas distribution across the country. HEP operates around 4,000 MW of installed electricity generation capacity and nearly 1,000 MW of heat production capacity, supported by a network of about 24,000 transformer stations and 140,000 km of lines, supplying over 2.3 million electricity customers and metering points in Croatia. In 2018 the Group produced 12.9 TWh of electricity and employed 11,018 people. The Group is organised as a holding with HEP d.d. performing corporate management and separating regulated network activities from competitive ones. Key subsidiaries include HEP Proizvodnja for generation, HEP Operator distribucijskog sustava for distribution, HEP Opskrba and HEP ELEKTRA for supply, HEP Toplinarstvo for district heating, HEP Plin for gas distribution, HEP ESCO for energy efficiency services, and HEP Obnovljivi izvori energije for renewables; transmission system operator HOPS has been unbundled. HEP co‑owns and offtakes power from major assets such as the Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia and the Plomin thermal power plant, and is expanding its domestic renewable portfolio through projects including the 58 MW Korlat wind farm, associated Korlat solar power plants and a 99 MW solar facility financed in part by the EBRD. The company underpins its operations with ISO‑certified environmental, energy, quality, and health and safety management systems and implements programmes on air and water protection, waste management, biodiversity, corporate social responsibility and regular sustainability reporting.