Grid Italian Style - ENEL Defines the Future

Italy is at the forefront of major utilities worldwide realizing
its vision of the future of electricity. The massive utility aims
to be carbon neutral by 2040. In this episode of Grid Talk, host
Marty Rosenberg talks with Antonio Cammisecra, who’s the head of
the Enel Grids within the Enel Group in Italy. 


Enel Grids operates a massive 1.5 million miles of predominately
distribution lines. 


“Without a doubt we are the most digitized distribution company
in the world,” said Cammisecra. “We are the absolute leader in
this field.” 


It is all part of a sweeping, utility sector transformation.


“It took us 20 years to completely digitalize the Italian grid
for which we are very well advanced. And we had several waves of
digitalization so, now we are at the third generation of digital
meter. We have achieved basically two things: the capability to
open up a much more modern electricity market because the
digitization of the metering itself is the beginning of a much
more modern market so you can have hourly pricing for example.”


 “We understood there was a new era approaching to the
industry and you cannot, let’s say, survive or prosper or lead
the industry without deep profound change in the way you wanted
to stay in that industry, which, of course, conceives a different
approach to innovation and to sustainability.”


Antonio Cammisecra became Head of the Enel Grids Business Line on
October 1, 2020. Prior to that, he was the Sole Director of Enel
Green Power and Director of the Africa, Asia, and Oceania region.
He joined the International Division of Enel Group in 1999 and
has served in multiple positions.


Cammisecra studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of
Naples Federico II, graduating with first class honors in 1996.
He received an MBA from Milan’s Bocconi University in 2004.