High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Enel S.p.A. (Ente Nazionale per l`energia ELettrica) is an Italian electric utility company, the second-largest in Europe by market capitalization. Formerly a state-owned monopoly, it is now partially privatised with Italian government control: the largest shareholders are the Italian Ministry of Economy & Finance (13.9%) and the state-run bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (17.4%).