ENEA is the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public law body dedicated to research, technological innovation and the provision of advanced services to businesses, the Public Administration and citizens in the sectors of energy, the environment and sustainable economic development (Article 4 of Law No. 221 of 28 December 2015).”

ENEA has highly qualified personnel, advanced laboratories, experimental plants and instruments of excellence for the realization of projects, studies, tests, evaluations, analyzes and training services with particular reference to product and process innovation and the exploitation of results for contribute to the development and competitiveness of the country system.

Since its birth in the 60s, its strengths have been applied to applied research, technology transfer and technical-scientific assistance to companies, associations, territories, central and local administrations. Its institutional reference is the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

The sectors of specialization are energy technologies (renewable sources, storage, intelligent grids) where the Agency is also the coordinator of the National Energy Technology Cluster, nuclear fusion and security (where the Agency is national research coordinator), energy efficiency (with the National Efficiency Agency), technologies for cultural heritage, seismic protection, food safety, pollution, life sciences, strategic raw materials, climate change​​.

Among the emerging issues, ENEA supports the production system and the public authorities (Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Economic Development in particular) in the transition towards the circular economy and resource efficiency.

To strengthen its activities, ENEA collaborates with numerous national and international research bodies and institutions such as Texas Tech University, Standford Research Institute, New Delhi University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ICTP, TWAS, and participates in technological platforms and networks such as EERA (European Energy Research Alliance), ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance), MEDENER and Enterprise Europe Network, the largest network of services to support competitiveness and innovation for SMEs.