Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Italy: Architectural Award for an Enel Geothermal Power Plant

EGP’s requalification of Sasso 2 geothermal plant in Tuscany awarded (EGP)

Sasso Pisano Geothermal Plant (Courtesy Volcanex Geothermal)
The Alto Adige Architectural Foundation acknowledged Enel Green Power’s requalification project for Sasso 2 geothermal plant in Sasso Pisano (Tuscany, Italy). An intervention that “combines the industrial generation of energy with touristic-excursionist and didactic development” and enhances integration with the territory and naturalistic beauty.

The Alto Adige Architectural Foundation gave the award to Enel Green Power’s requalification project for the Sasso 2 site, that houses the geothermal plant at Sasso Pisano. A project that is capable of combining architecture and landscape by means of “a quiet strategy that regulates the existing plant and organizes things from the visitors’ viewpoint”, allowing the latter to experience the many facets of geothermal power.

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