Enel Generación Chile

Enel Generación Chile S.A.

Company type	Sociedad Anónima
Traded as	BCS: ENELGXCH NYSE: EOCC BMAD: XEOC
Industry	utilities
Founded	1943
Headquarters	Santiago, Chile
Key people	Joaquín Galindo Vélez, (CEO) Eduardo Escaffi Johnson, (CFO)
Services	Electricity generation
Revenue	US$4.5 billion (2011)
Net income	US$858.0 million (2011)
Number of employees	2,447
Parent	Enel Americas
Website	www.enel.cl

Enel Generación Chile S.A., formerly known as Endesa Chile and Empresa Nacional de Electricidad, is the largest electric utility company in Chile. It was created as a subsidiary of the state-owned CORFO on 1 December 1943 and was privatized in 1989. As of April 2009, it is owned by Enersis with a 60% stake, which in turn is 61% owned by Endesa International SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Endesa Group. Besides Chile, the Company has investments in Argentina, Colombia and Peru. It also has unconsolidated equity investments in companies engaged primarily in the electricity generation, transmission and distribution business in Brazil. Endesa Chile owns a 51% stake in the controversial HidroAysén project in Aisén Region, which would build 5 hydropower dams on two of Chile's largest wild rivers, the Baker and the Pascua. As of the 17 December 2009, Jorge Rosenblut has been the President of Endesa.^{[citation needed]} Enel has signed a contract to deliver renewable power to SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile starting in January 2021.^[1]

See also

• Chapiquiña power plant
• HidroAysén
• Ralco Hydroelectric Plant
• Endesa (Spain)
• Colbún S.A.

References

External links

• Enel Chile

This page was last edited on 18 August 2022, at 06:49