Selling & trading

Enel sells electricity in 12 countries. The Group’s sales companies do business on both the regulated market, with restricted rates, and the free market, and thus respond to all the needs of the Group’s 61,055,278 customers, of whom 57,068,738 are in the electricity market and 3,986,540 in the gas market.

The Enel Group’s sales of electricity in 2010 amounted to 309.0 TWh, an increase of 21.0 TWh (+7.3%) with respect to 2009. The increase was due to the larger quantity sold abroad (+35.0 TWh) – connected mainly with the change in the method of consolidating Endesa, to which were added the increased sales in France, Russia, and the Latin American countries – and was partially offset by the smaller quantity sold in Italy (-14.0 TWh) because of the decrease in sales to business customers in the free market and to customers in the regulated market.

Gas sales to end customers in 2010 amounted to 8.9 billion cubic meters, an increase of 1.2 billion cubic meters with respect to 2009 (+15.6%). Specifically, 0.9 billion cubic meters of this increase regarded gas sales abroad – because of the effect of a change in the method of consolidating Endesa – and 0.3 billion cubic meters regarded sales in Italy.