The new Future Enel project has been launched by the Enel Group in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, one of the most renowned academic centres in the world.
This multidisciplinary initiative aims at integrating new technologies on power plant building and management, in order to ensure the top safety level in every area.
Future Enel is part of the “MIT Italy” programme, which for the past 12 years has enacted projects jointly developed by MIT and Italian companies, public agencies and research centres.
The three-year initiative will be coordinated by the MIT Senseable City Lab, a laboratory created in 2004 at MIT to study human interaction, technology tools and their environment.
The first year will be devoted to studying site safety during the construction of power plants. Specific aims are: 1) the development of technologies to monitor and gather data in real time through sensors and new modeling and visualizing techniques, and 2) planning a virtual control room.
The advances of Future Enel will be experimented in Slovakia, one of the countries on which Enel is aiming for its growth in central-eastern Europe’s market. The techniques developed by the project will be applied to the Mochove nuclear plant, managed by Slovenské Elektrárne (whose majority owner is Enel). Here two new nuclear reactors are under construction, the plant’s third and fourth.
