Enel Green Power Automates Processes With Volue’s Software

Enel Green Power is the Enel Group global business line dedicated to the development and operation of renewables across the world, with a presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Enel Green Power is a global leader in the green energy sector with a managed capacity of around 46 GW across a generation mix that includes wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower, and is at the forefront of integrating innovative technologies into renewable power plants.

Volue software enables Enel Green Power to react nearly in real-time to balancing orders, relevant changes in the availability of power plants, weather data, and inflow observations for the entire Valmalenco valley in Lombardia.

“With Volue’s software, we enable our dispatchers to forecast inflows accurately, and to use our precious water resources in an optimal way, thus increasing revenues and reducing imbalance costs significantly”, says Matteo Bossi, Head of the Regional Dispatching Centre in Sondrio.

Since 2018, Enel Green Power has used Volue’s software in the Regional Dispatching Centre in Sondrio in Northern Italy. Volue’s solutions have been used for the entire business process related to production planning and dispatch of the hydropower plants in the Valmalenco valley.

The hydropower plants produce around 700 GWh annually and are bid to the market as an aggregated production unit. This means that Enel Green Power optimises the overall production schedule of the power plants nearly in real-time.

Due to their high degree of flexibility, Enel Green Power’s power plants in Valmalenco are of strategic importance in Enel’s overall power plant portfolio in Italy, with an annual production of around 60 TWh.

“The cooperation with Volue started with a test of Volue’s solution in Valmalenco in 2018 and we were impressed by the results”, says Davide Passuello, Project Manager for the Volue software implementation at Enel Green Power O&M Hydro Italy.