Wednesday 17 February 2021 Utility companies may not seem an obvious home for innovation, but the shift to renewable energy means they need to be at the forefront of digital technologies. And that's one reason why Enel was the first renewable supermajor to shift its IT infrastructure entirely to the cloud, a move that allowed the leading energy company to continue the company’s digitisation process. Twenty years ago, that process began for Enel with smart meters. In 2001, the company began its Telegestore project, which aimed to replace all analogue meters connected to the low-voltage grid in Italy with digital meters, helping improve customer service and experience for 30 million end users while increasing efficiency for Enel.