Alessandro Volta Power Plant
| Alessandro Volta thermal power station | |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′30″N 11°32′11″E / 42.3583°N 11.5364°E |
| Status | Operational |
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| Website | corporate |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The Alessandro Volta Power Plant is a 3600
It was commissioned in 1989 near the unfinished Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station of which it used part of the site and the sea water intakes already built.
It is currently scheduled for disposal and is being negotiated for sale and conversion into data centers for IT companies.[citation needed]
Construction
The plant consists of four 660 MW steam units that can be fired by either dense
combined cycle with the steam units.[citation needed
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It is the most powerful
thermal power plant in Italy but is relatively underutilized (about 3000 hours per year[when?] out of a theoretical maximum of 8760),[2]
due to the high cost of fuel.
Emissions
In 2009, the plant emitted one million tons of
CERs.[3]
Specifically, in order to gain possession of the necessary CERs,
trifluoromethane (also known by the abbreviation HFC-23, it is a very dangerous greenhouse gas).[citation needed] In this way, providing on the one hand the removal of greenhouse gases in China, it comes into possession of credits that allow it to emit an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide
in Italy.
See also
References
- ^ "Technical data sheet - Enel.it". Enel.it. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "The (failed) Montalto power plant cost every Italian 250 euros". Corriere.it. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Pollution permits: problems for Enel". Ilfattoquotidiano.it. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
