Enel Green Power has inaugurated a new renewable energy control room in Santiago de Chile which is able to monitor wind, solar, hydro and geothermal technologies.
The new centre will manage all the company’s 4.7GW of operational renewable power at 36 plants in the South American country. It will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Enel said.
Enel Green Power chief executive Antonio Cammisecra said: “We inaugurated the largest Enel control room worldwide, a record that confirms Chile’s strategic role in renewables generation and innovation.
“From this control room, we will monitor the mix of technologies present in the country, optimising, within the nationwide generation mix, energy flows between grid demand and available supply from renewable sources, with benefits for the energy industry and for customers.”
The control room was built in four months following the merger of Enel Chile and Enel Green Power’s Chilean subsidiary.
Enel has 3557MW of hydro, 642MW of wind energy, 492MW of solar and 48MW of geothermal operating in the country.