What is "enel"

Enel may refer to:

• Enel SpA, an Italian electricity company
• Enel (One Piece), a fictional villain in the One Piece manga and anime series
• Enel, meaning third in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, cf. Awakening of the Elves
• Enel Brindisi
• Enel Cuore, an Italian non-profit organization
• Enel Green Power, an Italian multinational renewable energy corporation

Enel is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas.

Enel, which originally stood for National Entity for Electricity (Ente nazionale per l'energia elettrica), was first established as a public body at the end of 1962, and then transformed into a limited company in 1992. In 1999, following the liberalization of the electricity market in Italy, Enel was privatized. As of February 2015, the Italian government is the owner of 25.5% of the company's shares.

In 2014, Enel employed about 70,000 people, works in about 30 countries and at the end of 2013 – with 80.5 billion euro of revenue and a market capitalization of 31 billion euro – is the 56th company in the world by revenue. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Enel's former logo (from 1998 till 2016), designed by Bob Noorda and Maurizio Minoggio, is a combination of a sun and a tree whose nine branches – or nine rays – represent the variety of services offered by the company.