Italy's Enel plants farm of 200 turbines in five years

Energy group Enel, which, through the privatisations that it won, became the biggest private distributor of electricity in Romania, says it plans to invest 500 million euros from 2011 through 2015 to install a capacity of 400 MW in wind farms.

So, in five years Enel will be the owner of a 200-turbine farm, which will be able to supply around 365,000 homes with green energy.
"We are growing very fast on this segment. We already have 64 MW installed and we plan to install 400 MW from 2011 through 2015. This entails around 500 million euros in investments," said Francesco Starace, CEO of the renewable energy division of the Italian group.

So far, Enel has announced that two wind farms in the Tulcea county area have become operational, having a cumulated capacity of 64 MW. For the two farms, the company used 2 MW turbines, which means at the end of 2015, if the same technology is used, the Italians could "plant" around 200 turbines in the Dobrogea. Considering the annual yields of investments in wind energy, which amount to around 25-30%, in 2015 the capacity that the Italians have announced could be used to distribute energy to around 365,000 households, with a monthly average consumption of 200 kWh.