14.05.08 Enel’s Q1 Italian output up 3.1% as less power is imported
Enel, Italy’s biggest utility, increased the amount of electricity it generated in the country in the first quarter by 3.1 per cent as net imports declined by 2.7 per cent.
Enel’s Italian plants generated 23.0 TWh in Q1, compared to 22.3 TWh in the same period of 2007, the company said in its results statement.The company’s fossil fuel-burning plants raised output by 0.6 TWh over the quarter, while its hydroelectric generation rose by 0.1 TWh, compared to the corresponding period a year earlier. Enel completed a tender last week to find manufacturers to install 552 MW of wind turbine capacity in projects in Italy, France and Spain by 2011 as part of its €6.8 billion renewable investment programme. The programme aims to increase the group’s total capacity from renewables (excluding large hydro-electric plants) from 3,112 MW installed at the end of 2007 to 7,382 by the end of 2012. Enel’s Italian installed capacity from renewables was 1,536 MW at the end of 2007, 3.8 per cent of its total installed capacity in Italy of 40,475. It plans to raise its Italian installed renewables capacity by more than 80 per cent to 2,781 MW by the end of 2012. Enel’s total installed capacity across all types of electricity generation is about 80,000 MW worldwide, including installations from Spanish utility Endesa which it bought control of in November last year. Fossil fuel-burning power plants made up 56.4 per cent of the total, 27.4 per cent came from renewables, and 16.2 per cent from nuclear plants. London
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