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Enel's Hybrid Geothermal Energy Future (Enel)

In an age of consumption efficiency and fight against climate change, a number of industrial sectors are moving towards hybridization. Even Porsche has released three hybrid models that ensure higher performance levels and care for the environment, reduce consumption and offer new technological possibilities. And although the automotive sector has almost monopolized the technology by producing an increasing number of hybrid vehicles, the energy sector is not lagging too far behind.

A few months ago in the town of Castelnuovo Val di Cecina in Tuscany, Enel Green Power (EGP) opened the worksite for the construction of the world's first plant to use biomass to heat geothermal steam, increasing energy efficiency and the electricity output of the geothermal cycle. The existing plant will be supplemented by a small plant powered with locally sourced virgin forest biomass produced within a radius of 70 km of the facility. The steam entering the plant will be heated to raise the initial temperature to between 370°-380° from 150°-160°, increasing net power generation capacity, thanks to both the greater enthalpy of the steam and the enhanced efficiency of the cycle due to lower humidity in the generation phase.

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