The plant
Main data
The plant, located under the Lantern, includes a unit of 155 MW and two of 70 MW. It houses an area of 20,000 square metres for coal storage systems and provided with means for limiting as much as possible the dispersion of dusts.
The building that contains the engine room, boiler and auxiliary equipment dates back to the 20s and is bound by the Superintendency of Architectural and Environmental Heritage for its architectural and historical value. It contains a 130 kV power station that will remain in operation even after 2017, essential to the functioning of high current electricity grid and lines to serve the city and harbour.
Recent events
In March 2017, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development approved Enel's request for the plant's final end of operations.
The plant, which produced its last kilowatt-hour in August 2016 and had remained 'available' on request of the Ministry, in the first months of 2017, has therefore definitely ended its role in the national energy system.
The territory
"I really woudn’t know where to start to give you the impression it made and still makes on me: I laughed like a child and I could not hide my joy! Everyone must see Genoa!", Richard Wagner wrote in a letter. The Ligurian capital is a complex and rich city in terms of history and economy, trade, industry and culture whose roots date back to 5000 B.C..
The skyline of Genoa combines the ancient and the modern showing even today the aura of impregnable fortress designed by the doges and at the same time a modern city where buildings designed by Renzo Piano are combined with the history in the heart of the ancient port.
Genoa is the sea and also art because the city, grown larger thanks to its domination of the Mediterranean, counts among its illustrious citizens so many men and entire families that have ridden the waves for centuries, but also unique musicians: from Nicolò Paganini, one of the greatest violinists of all times, to Fabrizio De André and Luigi Tenco, only to name three of many.
