Enel (Ente Nazionale per l'energia ELettrica) {ISE: IT0003128367) is an Italian energy provider and the third largest energy provider in the world.^{[citation needed]} Formerly a state-owned monopoly, it is now partially privatised with Italian government control (31.1% state owned as of 2006). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Borsa Italiana S.p. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Its stock is traded on the Milan Stock Exchange under the symbol 'Enel' and on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'EN'.

As Italy's largest supplier of electricity, Enel is a major importer of nuclear-generated electricity from France. During 2005 they moved to secure future supplies by investing in new nuclear capacity in France and Slovakia, and in the development of the EPR. European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) is a new fission nuclear reactor design, based on the pressurized water reactor or PWR. It has been designed and developed mainly by the Commissariat à lÉnergie Atomique in France and the Karlsruhe Research Center in Germany. ...

External links

• Home page in Italian.

• World's third largest energy supplier...

• Nuclear energy in Italy from the Uranium Information Centre.

• Energytrends page on Italy.

• Press release about Enel purchasing GE wind turbines.

• Enel international investment in new nuclear capacity:
  • http://www.world-nuclear.org/nb/nb05/nb0522.htm#nb05.22-11
  • http://www.world-nuclear.org/nb/nb05/nb0521.htm#nb05.21-13
  • http://www.world-nuclear.org/nb/nb04/nb0402.htm#nb04.02-16
  • http://www.world-nuclear.org/nb/nb05/nb0533.htm#nb05.33-7
  • http://www.seas.sk/public-relations/standpoint-to-the-investment-2.html
  • http://www.seas.sk/public-relations/hydroturbo-2006-en/13611.html