Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.

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Chicco Testa, Enel's chairman, says distribution should have been properly sorted out when Enel was entirely state-owned and before the local companies had been floated.

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But Mr Scaroni plans to double Enel's 10% share of the domestic gas market by 2009.

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