Italy’s Enel Launches 30 MW Wind Farm in Romania

Enel Green Power, part of Italy's Enel Group, launched on Monday a 30 megawatt (MW) wind farm in southeastern Romania, doubling its wind power production capacity in the country, the company said on Monday.

The Salbatica I wind farm consists of fifteen 2.0 MW Games wind turbines and its annual production is estimated at about 85.5 million kilowatt hours (kWh), Enel Green Power said in a statement.

In December Enel Green Power launched its first wind farm in Romania, the 34 MW Agighiol farm.

"With Salbatica we are doubling in a month's time our wind power production in Romania, a journey that began last December with the opening of the Agighiol plant," Enel Green Power CEO Francesco Starace said in the statement.

With a total installed capacity of 64 MW, the two wind farms will generate more than 180 million kWh per year, meeting the needs of 64,000 households and saving about 120,000 metric tons in CO2 emissions, the company said.

"Our energy generation in the country will continue to expand at a rapid clip over the next two years, thanks to the many projects that are close to implementation."

The installed wind capacity in Romania is expected to rise from 14 MW in 2009 to 600 MW by the end of 2010 and to reach approximately 3,600 MW in 2015, the statement added.

Enel Group, presented in Romania since 2005, has some 2.6 million clients in the country and 93,000 kilometres of power distribution network.

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