CEDEC was founded as a non-profit organisation in 1992 in Brussels and has been actively advocating the interests of its membership towards decision-makers and other stakeholders in European Union policy-making processes.
CEDEC represents the interests of ca. 1500 local and regional energy companies - mostly in public hands - serving 75 million electricity and gas customers & connections with an annual turnover of 100 billion in six European Member States: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.