Enel Green Power Italia and Enel Produzione have been awarded 130MW split between new renewable capacity and refurbishment of hydropower plants already in service, in recent Italian auctions.
The Enel businesses won the capacity in the seventh round of renewable energy source tenders held by Gestore Servizi Energetici (GSE), from the “auctions” and “registers” quotas.
Of the total capacity awarded, 89.2MW will be met by two new solar projects, to be built in the Piedmont region and Sicily, with construction work starting in 2022.
Likewise, 37.3MW come from the refurbishment of three hydro plants already in operation in the Basilicata, Campania and Lazio regions.
The remaining 3.1MW relates to new renewable capacity from the “registers” quota, with a total of eight projects, including six projects for new solar capacity on the roofs of Enel buildings and on Enel land (in Tuscany, Lombardy and Campania), a hydropower plant in Sicily and a project to refurbish an existing hydropower plant in the Marche region.
The seventh GSE renewable energy sources auction recorded a total offering of 1232MW with projects awarded for 975MW.