Enel could decommission thermoelectric plants for 11 GW. This was announced during a hearing in the Senate by the CEO. of the Francesco Starace group, who spoke of a disposal or cessation plan that would involve 23 different plants in terms of technology and location.
“We are in the process – declared the CEO of Enel – of studies for alternative business solutions to safeguard, in concert with all the stakeholders, employment and, where possible, the industrial and productive vocation of the sites”. From an employment point of view, Starace has promised that the 700 workers involved will have no problems, since they will be relocated or retire.
A reassurance that, however, seems not to have been enough for the unions who, through the mouth of the general secretary of Filctem-Cgil, attack the CEO's plan: "The decommissioning of Italian power plants: a wrong idea that will make Enel increasingly weak and marginal in our country”. "The announced plan - continued Miceli - is heavy, sensationalist and devoid of rationality".
Starace also presented Enel's new 2015-2019 Business Plan to the Senate: "The group's reorganization will make it possible to obtain additional resources to invest in growth, through a rationalization of investments in maintenance: a successful model - underlined Starace - already applied in Enel Green Power”.
