Environmental commitment

Through its generation Divisions (Generation & Energy Management, Iberia & Latin America, International, Renewable Energy), Enel is committed to developing renewables in all the countries where it operates. Enel’s strategy rests on:

• Use of the best available technologies: Enel’s generating mix is progressively evolving towards 100% high-efficiency - and thus low-emission - power plants.
• Development of zero-emission sources, e.g. renewables and nuclear: Enel is consolidating its long-standing leadership in renewables through a dedicated company - Enel Green Power - and plans to gradually increase the nuclear share of the Group’s generating mix.
• Energy efficiency: Enel plans to enhance the efficiency of its grids and to take end-use efficiency initiatives relying, among others, on the Group’s energy service companies.
• Research & innovation: Enel allocated a little less than € 1 billion in the 2009-2013 period to CCS demonstration projects, development of innovative solar technologies, smart grids and power-driven mobility dissemination.

Global commitment to curbing CO₂ emissions through dissemination of projects and best practices in East-European and developing countries, resorting, among others, to the Kyoto Protocol flexible mechanisms (Clean Development Mechanism – CDM – and Joint Implementation – JI), in which the Group stands as a worldwide leader.

Enel’s international expansion has brought the Group to make a great effort to integrate different experiences and technological, cultural, social and legislative backgrounds. Sharing know-how and best practices in areas such as clean coal, geothermal, the electronic meter to increase energy efficiency, brings benefits in the environmental field and is improving the capacity of Enel to serve millions of customers and the communities where it operates with full consideration for the environment.

Gradually, all of the Group’s activities have Environmental Management Systems certified according to international standards and coordinated, harmonized and monitored inside the Group, which involve staff and suppliers.
The implementation of these guidelines has confirmed, also in 2009, the positive trend of environmental performance. The concrete commitment towards the environment is specifically demonstrated by the improvements achieved in countries where - before the acquisitions - performances were lower than Enel's benchmarks.