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is modernized, finally, the power lines

the lines of" republic "a beautiful story. As many scholars argue distinguished (see Rubia) it became clear that to optimize the electricity savings and, last but not least, give a signal for employment at the national level, it was decided to modernize and improve electrical pylons in some cases, line. A good news ... Happy reading!

COMPETITION
Terna choose the best projects and modernizing the electricity grid. The competition was won by Dutton ANTONIO Cianciulli

ROME - "Let's try to change the image of" industrial soldiers "that the towers now have to go to pylon elegant, inspired by leaves and trees. We try to find a dialogue with nature because the lattice can dance with her. " It is the goal that had put the architect HughDutton, Rosental study in Turin. And it has centered: he finished in first place in the competition for the pylons author banned from Terna, the company that manages 60,000 km of high and extra high voltage network and wants to modernize the image of the electrical infrastructure: an image battered by decades of unregulated growth and controversy electrosmog.
Form is not everything, but it counts. And transform the messy tangle of Italian electricity grid in rational lines which are part of the landscape is an important leap. Rosental has taken a leaf as a model. The study Frigerio, second in the standings, has tried to give shape to the chaos, searching for beauty in the irregularity. The group Giugiaro, third, has focused on the essentials and functionality.

"We decided to spend these names because the country needs large investments in and it is the case of them focusing on quality, "says Flavio Cattaneo, CEO of Terna. "Reducing congestion avoid wasting 1.2 billion kWh a year: there is room to get a good savings on utility bills and at the same time improve the visual landscape of the lines. The copyright pylons will cost 50 percent more, but the extra cost goes down to 5-6 percent by calculating the total investment on the line and the overall operation remains largely in surplus. We also give a clear signal that the modernization of the country can be an economic benefit, aesthetic, environmental. "

In the project, which provides the slaughter of 1,200 km of old lines with a high impact on the landscape and the construction of 2,000 km of new high technology, Terna has invested 850 million last year. Other 6 billion will be placed on the carpet in the next decade. The aim is to widen the bottlenecks that make it unusable part of the production supply forcing to build new power plants. A need in the coming years will be relaunched by the development of renewable energy sources that require more branching network.

"The congestion of the lines has a quantifiable cost: € 1.5 billion in the year to pay bills," says Cattaneo. "For remedy the situation will spend 480 million euro a year. It remains an economic benefit from 1 billion a year, a net benefit that also means that you can avoid building new power plants. The fluidity of the network gives the system the equivalent to the completion of eight plants from 1000 megawatts. The accounts of the operation return. To bring back the deadline for completing the unification should be sought authorization procedures. Today there is a risk of starting a wind farm or a gas plant without the ability to connect to the network on the opening day. "