The dam and power plant had been built by the Società Adriatica di Elettricità (the Adriatic Electricity Company, or SADE) and then sold to Edison, and it had just been transferred as part of the nationalisation process to the newly established Enel.
Priehradný múr a priehradu vybudovala spoločnosť SADA (Società Adriatica di Elettricità – Jadranská elektrárenská spoločnosť), následne ich predala Edison a práve v tom čase boli v rámci procesu znárodňovania prevedené na spoločnosť Enel.