Edison

FACTS AND FIGURES

Electric Power

In the electricity sector Edison operates both directly and using the affiliate, Edipower, a company born from the privatisation of the greatest electricity producer sold off by ENEL in 2002. The company is 50% owned by Edison, that controls also 50% of its production capacity.

Edison Group: installed capacity at December 2009 (GW)

	Edison	Edipower (Edison 50%)	Tot. Edison Group	%
Gas	6.8	2.5	9.3
Fuel Oil	0	0.6	0.6
Carbon	0	0.3	0.3
Thermoelectricity Total	6.8	3.4	10.2	83%
Hidroelectricity	1.3	0.4	1.7	14%
Wind Power	0.4	0	0.4	3%
Total	8.5	3.8	12.3	100%
(of which CIP 6 - dedicated)			1,8	14%

The sizeable investments made in recent years mean that Edison has one of the most modern plant systems operating in Italy. The system is also largely based on the most efficient technology currently available: Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT).

Edison's presence is also noteworthy in the renewable energy technology areas of hydro and wind power; in 2009 the new 50 MW wind farm of Melissa (KR) went into operation.

With 41.6 billion kWh produced in 2009, Edison is Italy's second-largest sector operator, having a market share of 15.0% of national output. Approximately 14% of the energy sold by the Group is regulated by CIP6/92 contracts. Due to the spark spread strong decrease, Edison is increasing the sales on the free market to eligible clients and wholesalers with bilateral contracts; it has also dramatically reduced its operations on the spot market and increased the purchases in the Electric Power Exchange (IPEX) in order to balance the sources / uses ratio. 

On October 5, 2009 the new electric power infrastructure connection between Italy and Switzerland has been put into operation; EL.IT.E, a company owned by Edison (48.45%), Raetia Energie (46.55%) And Tirano municipality (5%) is the company that built the line and runs it. The power line guarantees a 150 MW increase to the interconnection capacity between Italy and Switzerland.