14:33, 23 сентября 2019
Italians came to the Arctic for the wind
While the French and Chinese are investing in the extraction of Arctic gas, and the Australians in the development of polar coal, the Italians decided to invest in wind energy.
The Italian energy giant Enel today began building the largest wind power plant in the Arctic, the Kola Wind Farm, in the Murmansk Region. Its capacity will be 201 MW, and the cost is 273 million euros.
“This wind farm, which is the first major renewable energy facility located beyond the Arctic Circle, will help diversify the energy profile of the Murmansk Region using the abundance of its wind resources,” said Enone Simone, Head of Europe and the Euro-Mediterranean Region, at the laying of the first stone of the Kola Wind Farm Mori. “The Murmansk region is a strategic region, and the energy security of the Arctic is vital not only for us, but for the country as a whole, especially in the context of the large infrastructure projects that we are currently carrying out,” Andrei Chibis, the head of the Murmansk region, answered him in tone.
This project is interesting in several circumstances. The wind farm on the Kola Peninsula is by far the largest ongoing wind project in terms of installed capacity not only in the Arctic, but also in Russia - more than 200 MW. Prior to this, the “palm of leadership” in our country was held by the Adygea wind farm with a capacity of 150 MW, the first of 60 wind turbines of which Rosatom mounted this summer in Adygea. At the Kola wind farm there will be 57 wind turbines located on 257 hectares. They will produce about 750 GW / h of electricity per year, while avoiding the release of about 600 thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
At the same time, of course, everyone is interested in the question of how the equipment of the Italian concern will work in the Russian Arctic. Enel has good experience in Russia. In 2007, she bought OGK-5 from RAO "UES of Russia", which included four large gas and coal-fired thermal power plants. But they are located in the Stavropol Territory, Sverdlovsk and Tver regions. She is also building two more wind farms in Russia. But both of them are also located much south of Murmansk - in the area of Azov (Rostov Region) and in the Stavropol Territory (the Rodnikovsky project). And the management of the Russian division of the company recognizes that in order to achieve the desired effect of the Kola Wind Farm in the Russian Arctic, it will be necessary to draw on the experience of the entire Enel Group, which operates in 31 countries, including Canada and the United States.
“Based on the generally recognized experience of the Enel Group, we are contributing to the emergence of wind generating facilities in areas with difficult climatic and weather conditions,” said Enel Russia CEO Carlo Palashano Villamagna of the success of this project.
Enel Russia received the right to build the Kola Wind Farm in the summer of 2017 as part of a tender held by the Government of the Russian Federation for the construction of wind power facilities with a total installed capacity of 1.9 GW. The station should be commissioned at the end of 2021. Obviously, by the middle of the next decade, it will become clear whether this is the largest wind farm in the North that will meet the expectations of Italian power engineers and Russian industrialists.
Vadim Ponomarev
Enel Photos
“This wind farm, which is the first major renewable energy facility located beyond the Arctic Circle, will help diversify the energy profile of the Murmansk Region using the abundance of its wind resources,” said Enone Simone, Head of Europe and the Euro-Mediterranean Region, at the laying of the first stone of the Kola Wind Farm Mori. “The Murmansk region is a strategic region, and the energy security of the Arctic is vital not only for us, but for the country as a whole, especially in the context of the large infrastructure projects that we are currently carrying out,” Andrei Chibis, the head of the Murmansk region, answered him in tone.
This project is interesting in several circumstances. The wind farm on the Kola Peninsula is by far the largest ongoing wind project in terms of installed capacity not only in the Arctic, but also in Russia - more than 200 MW. Prior to this, the “palm of leadership” in our country was held by the Adygea wind farm with a capacity of 150 MW, the first of 60 wind turbines of which Rosatom mounted this summer in Adygea. At the Kola wind farm there will be 57 wind turbines located on 257 hectares. They will produce about 750 GW / h of electricity per year, while avoiding the release of about 600 thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
At the same time, of course, everyone is interested in the question of how the equipment of the Italian concern will work in the Russian Arctic. Enel has good experience in Russia. In 2007, she bought OGK-5 from RAO "UES of Russia", which included four large gas and coal-fired thermal power plants. But they are located in the Stavropol Territory, Sverdlovsk and Tver regions. She is also building two more wind farms in Russia. But both of them are also located much south of Murmansk - in the area of Azov (Rostov Region) and in the Stavropol Territory (the Rodnikovsky project). And the management of the Russian division of the company recognizes that in order to achieve the desired effect of the Kola Wind Farm in the Russian Arctic, it will be necessary to draw on the experience of the entire Enel Group, which operates in 31 countries, including Canada and the United States.
“Based on the generally recognized experience of the Enel Group, we are contributing to the emergence of wind generating facilities in areas with difficult climatic and weather conditions,” said Enel Russia CEO Carlo Palashano Villamagna of the success of this project.
Enel Russia received the right to build the Kola Wind Farm in the summer of 2017 as part of a tender held by the Government of the Russian Federation for the construction of wind power facilities with a total installed capacity of 1.9 GW. The station should be commissioned at the end of 2021. Obviously, by the middle of the next decade, it will become clear whether this is the largest wind farm in the North that will meet the expectations of Italian power engineers and Russian industrialists.
Vadim Ponomarev
Enel Photos
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