Enel

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Enel SpA

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legal form Società per azioni
ISIN IT0003128367
founding 1962
Seat Rome , ItalyItalyItaly 
management
  • Maria Patrizia Grieco, CEO
  • Francesco Starace, CEO
Number of employees 68,253
sales EUR 80.33 billion
Branch power supply
Website www.enel.com
As of December 31, 2019

Company headquarters in Rome

The Enel SpA is an Italian energy company based in Rome , in the fields of electricity and natural gas operates. The company is the largest electricity supplier in Italy and operates in 32 countries worldwide. The corporation was created by law in 1962 from the merger of several smaller, regionally operating companies. Since January 2017, the network has been operated by the independent company Terna , while the supply of electrical energy to end consumers within Italy is operated by the Enel subsidiary SEL (Servizio Elettrico Nazionale).

In the Forbes Global 2000 of the world's largest companies, Enel ranks 77th (as of FY 2019). The market capitalization in September 2019 was around 67 billion euros .

The name Enel is an acronym for " Ente nazionale per l'energia elettrica " (German: national body for electrical energy ).

Business areas

Enel worldwide (2009)
Enel's thermal power plant in Civitavecchia near Rome

The operative business comprises the two areas of electricity and gas supply . The electricity network operation was outsourced to the subsidiary Terna , founded in 1999, due to a legally prescribed separation between supply and network operation . In 2004, Terna was spun off from the Enel Group as part of a spin-off .

In addition to supplying power, the group was also briefly active in the telecommunications sector. The Telecom subsidiary Wind Telecomunicazioni , founded in 1997, was sold to Weather Investments by the Egyptian entrepreneur Naguib Sawiris in 2005 .

Since April 2006, Enel has been the majority shareholder in the Slovak energy supplier Slovenske Elektrarne with 66 percent of the shares.

Enel has been the majority shareholder in Endesa , the largest Spanish energy generation and supply company, since 2007 . In 2009, Enel Acciona bought a 25.01 percent stake in Endesa. As a result, Enel's stake in Endesa grew to 92.06 percent.

Electronic counters

Since the late 1990s, Enel has introduced digital electricity meters in around 30 million households , which are connected to a data network via the power lines themselves as a carrier frequency system . The partner is the Echelon Corporation , which supplied technology and data concentrators.

research

In the past, Enel had a Centro di Ricerca Idraulica e Strutturale (CRIS for short or Research Center on Hydraulics and Structures) with offices in Milan and Mestre . The Mestre office collected data related to ocean currents and waves . In 2000 the Mestre office was closed.

Shareholders

Shareholder structure (as of December 31, 2019)

See also

Web links

Commons : Enel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. enel.com - Chairman and Management team
  2. a b enel.com - CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT 2019 (PDF)
  3. enel.com - Where we are
  4. finanzen.net - Enel share
  5. ^ PWC : Privatization of Slovenské elektrárne. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  6. ^ Enel: Agreement reached with Acciona for the Acquisition of 25.01% of Endesa. ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of February 20, 2009, accessed November 24, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enel.com
  7. nytimes.com - ENEL TO PAY $ 300 MILLION FOR ECHELON'S TECHNOLOGY
  8. ENEL SPA - Centro Ricerca Idraulica e Strutturale (CRIS), Servizio Idrologico. March 19, 2008, accessed August 22, 2017 .
  9. GNDCI - The Research Team. Retrieved August 22, 2017 (English).
  10. enel.com - Shareholders