What Happens to Old Polluting Power Plants? Italy Has an Answer
Jessica Shankleman | July 13, 2016
Enel SpA, which is the nation’s biggest utility, plans to close 13 gigawatts of power stations fired by coal, natural gas and oil as part of a shift toward renewables, said Enrico Viale, the head of thermal power generation. Rather than razing them, the Rome-based company looking for developers to turn the sites into shopping malls, medical facilities or high-tech facilities.
“We don’t have the capability and the knowledge to find a new industrial use,” Viale said in an interview at Bloomberg’s office in London. “If there’s still a possibility to produce energy in a different way, we’ll develop the project, but if it’s not energy use, it’s not our business.”
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| "Enel coal power plant project in Porto Tolle, Italy" Source: https://ejatlas.org/conflict/enel-coal-power-plant-in-porto-tolle ("The Enel thermoelectric power plant of Porto Tolle is located on the Polesine Camerini Island at the Pila mouth of the Po (one of the Po River´s main mouths), in the middle of the Po Delta Regional Park (established in 1997) and at the border with a Special Protection Area and a Site of Community Importance [1]. Enel wants to convert the station currently using fuel oil to a coal-fired power plant.") |
<more at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-14/what-happens-to-old-polluting-power-plants-italy-has-an-answer; related articles and links: https://www.navigantresearch.com/newsroom/coal-plant-decommissioning-services-revenue-will-total-5-3-billion-from-2013-to-2020 (Coal Plant Decommissioning Services Revenue Will Total $5.3 Billion From 2013 to 2020. August 6, 2013) and https://ejatlas.org/conflict/enel-coal-power-plant-in-porto-tolle (Enel coal power plant project in Porto Tolle, Italy.)>
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