Enersis is one of the main privately-owned multinational electric power corporations in Latin America

Latin America

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. It currently holds direct and indirect participation in electric power generation, transmission, and distribution businesses. It has operations in five regional countries: Argentina

Argentina

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Chile

Chile

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, and Peru

Peru

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.

The Enersis Group generating companies had an installed capacity of 14,280 MW, and through the distribution companies they supplied electricity to near 12.5 million customers, or approximately 45 million inhabitants.

The controlling shareholder of Enersis is Endesa

Endesa (Spain)

Endesa, S.A. is the largest electric utility company in Spain. The firm, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Italian utility company Enel, has 10 million customers in Spain, with domestic annual generation of over 97,600 GWh from nuclear, fossil-fueled, hydroelectric, and renewable resource power...

, a Spanish multinational that holds 60.62% ownership. Endesa Spain in turn is controlled by Enel

Enel

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Italy.