07/23/2015 Enel Green Power's geothermal power has been breaking records for more than a hundred years, starting from the century-long tradition of Larderello in Italy, where for the first time ever steam from the Earth was used to generate electricity, and bringing us to Cerro Pabellόn in Chile, where the first geothermal plant in the whole of South America was built

Enel Green Power's geothermal power is used to breaking records, since it has been doing it for more than a hundred years, with its roots in the century-long tradition of Larderello (Italy), where for the first time in history steam issuing from beneath the Earth's surface was used to generate electricity. Since then, the development of technologies and plants over the last few years has enabled EGP to stand out for its globally acknowledged excellence and records.

Cerro Pabellόn, in the Chilean region of Antofagasta, is EGP's latest record involving energy from the Earth. This plant, whose construction began on July 14, boasts two records: a continental one, being the first geothermal plant in Latin America, and a global one, as the first such facility in the world located at an altitude of 4,500 metres above sea level. Additionally, Cerro Pabellόn marks a new age for Chile, which has an estimated untapped geothermal capacity of approximately 3,600MW. EGP will build the plant together with the Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP), and the experience gained in this field, together with the course leading up to the opening of the Chilean worksite shows that the company is the only geothermal operator capable of carrying out the entire project cycle, from exploration to construction and plant management.

From Chile to the United States scenarios change but once again records are set. In the USA, Enel Green Power's geothermal output reaches an installed capacity of 72MW, which includes the hybrid Stillwater plant in Nevada, the first facility in the world that combines the continual generation capacity of a binary cycle middle-enthalpy geothermal with a solar PV plant (26MW) and a solar thermodynamic plant (2MW).

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