Ansaldo Energia is a Finmeccanica Group company subject to joint direction and coordination by Finmeccanica and First Reserve Power. Finmeccanica is Italy's leading industrial group in the high technology sector; First Reserve Corporation is a US investment fund specialising in the energy sector and the leading international private equity investor in the power and natural resources sector. Finmeccanica owns production assets in the Group's three domestic markets: Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. In Europe it also has a significant presence in France, Germany and Poland. It has a total workforce of 75,000 worldwide. Drawing on this background, Ansaldo Energia works on global power markets with the strength of a major group and its partnership with First Reserve Corporation marks the start of a new period of growth. Ansaldo Energia is Italy's largest supplier, installer and service provider for power generation plants and components, and a leading international player. Ansaldo Energia is one of the finest expressions of Italian technology and innovation in the energy sector. It is a full-cycle, integrated operator, with the capabilities to build turnkey power plants on green field sites using its own technologies and its own independent design, production, construction, commissioning and service resources. Ansaldo Energia has an installed base of about 175,000 MW in single and combined cycle gas turbine, steam, hydroelectric and geothermal plants. The company also has a strategic presence in the nuclear and renewable energy sectors. Ansaldo Energia has a corporate mission "to achieve sustainable growth by offering a portfolio of flexible, innovative solutions to satisfy the global energy needs of the future". Energy has been the focus of Ansaldo's activities for more than 150 years, shaping the company's business culture. Advanced technology, efficiency, flexibility and excellence in customer relations underpin the Ansaldo Energia offering and its competitiveness on international markets. The transformation of natural resources into energy is a vital step in the growth process. Ansaldo Energia has brought its machinery and power plants (and with them electric power and development) to 90 countries on all five continents, confirming that it is an innovative and reliable producer and a vital technology partner for emerging economies too. Ansaldo Energia works for governments, public utilities, independent power producers and industrial customers. The company's commercial proposition involves the use of different, but complementary, technologies and sources of energy. Engineering, production, commissioning and service activities are managed directly from headquarters in Genoa or through the company's subsidiaries: Ansaldo Nucleare (Genoa); Ansaldo Thomassen (The Netherlands, Rheden); Ansaldo Thomassen Gulf (Abu Dhabi); Ansaldo ESG (Switzerland, Würenlingen). Commercial delegations represent the company in various countries in the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, the Far East and Africa.