Italian company Enel generated over 21% more electricity from renewables in 2018, compared with the previous year.
Output from renewable energy – wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and other sources – was 98,940 gigawatt-hours last year, up from 81,696GWh in 2017.
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Wind accounted for over 22,000GWh, with hydro making up the bulk with almost 66,000GWh.
Renewable output was almost 40% of Enel’s total generation in 2018, an increase of almost seven percentage points on the previous year.
Installed renewable capacity at the company grew 2.3% in 2018 and now represents 45.8% of Enel’s total generating capacity.
Enel has almost 28GW of hydro, 8.2GW of wind, 2.4GW of solar and other sources and 804MW of geothermal.