THE UDINE HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT GROUP Via Volta, 21 33020 Cavazzo Carnico (UD) Phone 0433 399821 - Fax 0433 399827 Email: nucleo.udine@edipower.it

The Udine Hydroelectric Power plant Group has 309 MW installed capacity. It includess the hydroelectric plants located in Friuli Venezia Giulia exploiting the waters of Cellina torrent, Isonzo and Tagliamento rivers and of some confluents of the latter, with the dams, the water collecting works, thepower plants, the associated electrical stations and all the relevant facilities.

The eight main plants are connected to the high voltage grid  (Asta del Tagliamento and Asta del Cellina) and the eighteen smaller ones (located in  the territory of the provinces of Udine, Gorizia and Pordenone) are, connected to the medium voltage grid . All the plants of the Hydroelectric Power Plant Group are remote controlled from the Centralized Remote Control Station of Sesto San Giovanni in the province of Milan.

Historical background

The first hydroelectric plants in Friuli Venezia Giulia were implemented at the end of the 19th century. A plant of large size for that time was designed in 1897 by engineers Salice and Zenari. The project foresaw the use of the water of the Cellina torrent by means of Malnisio and Giais power plants, for a total power of 14,000 HP (10.4 MW).

Malnisio power plant, commissioned in 1905, supplied Venice city with a 30,000 volt, 87 km powerline. The Giais power plant, commissioned in 1908, supplied Udine town with a 30,000 volt 45 km powerline. In 1919 the Partidor power plant was commissioned, erected downstream the Giais power plant.

A large impulse to the development of hydroelectric plants in Friuli was given by the Società Adriatica di Elettricità (SADE) that implemented the plants of the Tagliamento River (Ampezzo 1948, Somplago, 1957) and the completion of Cellina plants (Barcis, San Foca and Villa Rinaldi in 1954).

In 2006, the new headquarters offices of theHydroelectric Power plant Group(previously located in Udine) were opened,  at the Somplago power plant.

ENVIRONMENTAL 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-art techniques.

The management of the Udine Hydroelectric Power Plant Group has implemented an Environmental Management System that was certified in July 2004 according to the UNI EN ISO Standard 14001 and started the activities for future voluntary acceptance of the EU Ecomanagement and Audit Scheme (EMAS).