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Corporate
September 2012
Enel Green Power (EGP) has started
operations at its 17MW Rancia 2
geothermal plant in Tuscany, Italy,
part of a €500m industrial plan for the
development of geothermal energy in
the area. The plant will generate around
150 million kilowatt hours of power,
saving the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes
of CO2 and 33,000 TOE (tonnes of oil
equivalent) of fossil fuels per year.
Enel Green Power’s CEO, Francesco Starace,
said: “These works show our commitment
to the continuous search for the
improvement of the existing power fleet
whereas, at the same time, we maintain
our involvement in further increasing our
generation capacity globally by putting
new plants into operation.”
Work is currently in progress on the
Rancia 1 and Le Prata plants, located
in the towns of Radicondoli (Siena)
and Castelnuovo (Pisa) while the three
Amiata-area geothermal plants, all
located in the town of Piancastagnaio
(Siena), are scheduled to enter service
shortly, completely refurbished.
Enal Green Power SpA – Italy
Website:
Geothermal
energy in Italy
The launch of new releases at wire 2012 proved particularly
successful for expowire.net.
Companies, both exhibitors and visitors, joined up to showcase
their services on the network which has been a reference point
for companies during the last ten years.
Even the wire, springs, fasteners and related industries are
adapting to internet and new communications technology, and
the benefits that offers are considerable.
180,000 visitors (certified by Google Analytics) enter the network
every year, visiting more than half a million pages. More than
13,000 companies are registered, and over 200 companies
decided to use this opportunity to promote themselves. It is
easier on the Internet to find your company on a social network,
rather than just having your own website.
“We created a hub,” explained manager Davide Dell’Oro. “The
idea came to me by visiting the exhibition in Düsseldorf in 2002.
In the multitude of stands, side by side, it is easy for a visitor
to get lost. There is the lubricant manufacturer next to the
wire-drawing factory, or the manufacturer of tools.
“At expowire.net it is different: the search of the company, and of the
product you’re interested in, becomes easy and functional, because
in front of a computer you need to find what you want without
wasting time. Traditional fairs and exhibitions are very important,
the human contact will always have its value, and rightly so. But
when the show ends, all year round, there’s expowire.net.”
Already translated into English, German, French, Spanish and
Italian, the network will also soon be available in Russian and
Chinese. And in the coming months the new version will be
further implemented with new features, making the navigation
faster and more powerful.
Expowire.net – Italy
Website:
New Expowire network goes live
▲ ▲ How the Expowire site looks now