THE TUSCIANO HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT GROUP Via San Leone Magno, 130 84062 Olevano sul Tusciano (Salerno) Phone 0828/234711-2 - Fax 0828/234700 Email: nucleo.tusciano@edipower.it

The TUSCIANO- Hydroelectric Power Plant Group, with an installed  capacity of about 96 MW, includes eight hydroelectric power plants (one is not in operation) All plants of the Hydroelectric Power Group are remote controlled from the Centralized Remote Control Station  of Sesto San Giovanni (Milan).

Hystorical background

The hydroelectric power plant at Olevano on Tusciano is one of the  first hydroelectric power plants erected in Italy in the period between end of XIX century and early XX century and is the  first erected by SME (Società Meridionale di Elettricità) in the south of Italy.
The original project dates back to 1895. The works were started in  1901 and completed in 1905.

A 30 kV line transported the “power” to the industries at Torre Annunziata

Once the water bond granted as “railway water storage” elapsed (it was a kind of pre-emption in favour of the railway electrification that limited the flow-rate to  1,900 litres/sec.),  a second penstock was installed in year 1924, when the old Girard turbines were replaced with two new Pelton turbines.
In 1934, a power station and an outdoor 150 kV panel were constructed, close to the hydroelectric power plant, to receive the incoming lines from the Sila.

In 1955, the hydroelectric power plant was expanded with consequent increase in the power capacity. In 2001, after the plant retrofitting, both penstocks were replaced with  asingleone.

Enviromental protection

All activities that interact or may interact with the environment are managed in accordance with the ruling environmental standards and the available state-of-the-art techniques.

The  management of the Tusciano Hydroelectric Power Plant Group  has implemented an Environmental Management System that was certified according to the UNI EN ISO Standard  14001 in June 2006.

To foster the ongoing improvement of the environmental performances and the information to the public, the management of the Group has voluntarily adopted   the EU Ecomanagement and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and was registered in March 21, 2007 with the number  IT-000618.