Italian coal power plants are turning into clean energy spaces
Frigerio Design Group has recently won a competition for designing Enel’s, Italy’s national entity for electricity, plan to convert all of their coal power plants in Italy by 2025. That’s right — all of them.
The winning design was chosen for its visual impact, as well as, for its public and research spaces. Frigerio Design Group was inspired by the fractal, a geometric pattern, and natural beauty of the area to create their winning design. The design also includes new buildings and public areas dedicated to social and cultural development.
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That means this one new power plant is just the start of a lot of amazing energy innovations that are coming to Italy very, very soon. The plan for this power plant integrates training, information, research and recycling to help create environmentally sustainable solutions for the future.
Four of the five coal plants operated by Enel in Italy will be converted to burn natural gas. Natural gas produces less than half the emissions of coal, but it is not clean energy. This is just the beginning of Enel’s process toward more sustainable energy.
Additionally, developing wind and solar parks in Italy is a slow process. It’s necessary to switch to natural gas in the interim in order to reduce emissions quickly. Enel has been moving toward converting all of its power plants to stop using coal since 2008. They’ve already cut the emissions they produce with power plants by 28 percent in Italy.
Enel is committed to continuing their goals toward an even greener future.
Image via Enrico Frigerio
Written by KC Morgan
