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Extreme Makeover: Aging Gas Power Plants Playing The Energy Game Increasingly Defined By Renewables

Brendan Coffey
March 05, 2019
Three years ago, when GE and Italian utility A2A resurrected a mothballed power plant in Chivasso, they also created a roadmap for how older plants could be made over to emit fewer greenhouse gases and become more competitive players in the energy market. Now the lessons of Chivasso’s extreme makeover have been extended to A2A’s other decades-old power generators in Northern Italy: two gas-powered plants in Cassano and Sermide.
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Minds-Machines

The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power Plant In Italy’s Industrial Heart

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation and a high-voltage cable from France has created more power supply than the region can absorb. So much so, in fact, the glut took at least one decades-old power plant out of commission in 2013.
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