Fournié Grospaud
Created in 1925
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The Saint-Victor 150/225 kV station and the 150 kV span outbound from Béziers (3 March 1952)
In 1925, Raymond Fournié and Henri Grospaud teamed up to create Fournié-Grospaud, a company based in Tarbes. Until 1945, the company worked almost exclusively on providing electrical power to the railways of southern France. After the war, electrical utilities were nationalised and the company was forced to diversify. While Fournié-Grospaud's main customers remained the national utility EDF and the railway authority SNCF, the company began offering maintenance contracts. In 1970, Fournié-Grospaud teamed up with Garczynski Traploir and Mors Jean Bouchon, within a holding company called UEER, from which GTIE (Générale de Travaux et d’Installation Electrique) was created. Fournié-Grospaud became part of SGE through GTIE in 1996.