Italy: Enel starts operating plants to capture and store carbon emissions

Enel Italy’s biggest energy company, started operating the country’s first plant for capturing carbon dioxide emissions and storing them underground in a pilot project intended to make the technology viable.
Enel won 100 million euros in European Union funding for two projects to sequester emissions. The first is a 20 million-euro facility to capture 8,000 metric tons of CO2 a year at its coal-fired plant in the southern Adriatic city of Brindisi. It’s a test for a larger-scale project at Enel’s Porto Tolle coal plant in northeastern Italy, which will capture 1 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas.


The company is investing 2.5 billion euros in its Porto Tolle plant, which will have generating capacity of about 2,000 megawatts. An additional 1 billion euros will be invested over 10 years on carbon capture at this plant, Livio Vido, Enel’s head of engineering and innovation, said today at a press conference in Brindisi.
by adnkronos