2013 will be a memorable year for Enel Green Power, thanks to twice making a new production record, more than 700 megawatts of new installed capacity, moving into new markets, and innovations for energy production.
With a growth of 700 megawatts, new plants in Europe and the Americas, technological innovations and moving into new and promising markets, 2013 has been a year full of achievements for Enel Green Power.
It was a year that began by achieving the daily production peak record of 103 gigawatt-hours on 16 January. This record was beaten again on 5 November, when EGP’s plants across 16 countries achieved 108.419 GWh, as much as the daily energy consumption of Hungary.
Several plants were connected to the grid, some of which were in new technologies and types of production. In March, for instance, the 90 megawatt Talinay wind farm, EGP’s first in Chile, was put into service, while in July Berceni 1 and Berceni 2, which have a total installed capacity of 19MW, became Romania's first PV solar facilities to be connected to the grid in Romania.
EGP also began the testing the mini wind power turbine designed by Renzo Piano and developed together with EGP. It’s an extremely thin double-bladed turbine, which works with weak winds, made possible thanks to research on new light and resilient materials.
In June EGP started making use renewable energy sources that had never or seldom been used before, such as the R115 wave generator, which was developed together with 40South Energy and can convert energy produced by sea waves into electricity. The prototype is currently being tested in Tuscany.
In October EGP achieved one of the strategic objectives of the 2013 – 2017 Business Plan, entering a market with high green energy growth potential – South Africa – where EGP will build four PV solar plants and two wind farms totalling a capacity of 513MW.