Enel SpA, Italy’s biggest energy company, started operating the country’s first plant for capturing carbon dioxide emissions and storing them underground in a pilot project intended to make the technology viable.
Enel won 100 million euros ($138 million) in European Union funding for two projects to sequester emissions. The first is a 20 million-euro facility to capture 8,000 metric tons of CO2 a year at its coal-fired plant in the southern Adriatic city of Brindisi. It’s a test for a larger-scale project at Enel’s Porto Tolle coal plant in northeastern Italy, which will capture 1 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas.
