It’s not just mechanics,
it’s also electronics and electrics.
That’s how I say it with my Tuscan accent!
Here we're at the Valle Secolo power plant:
my name’s Luca Pratelli,
I've been working at Enel since 2016, I'm 40 years old,
and I manage the technical and planning team.
My role and responsibilities have changed more or less every two years since I’ve been here.
I started in what was essentially an office-based role,
I then started working more on site as a program manager,
and now I head up the technical and planning team.
There are 17 of us.
Each person is responsible
for managing a particular component
within the overall geothermal facility,
which is what enables us to use endogenous steam
to produce renewable electricity.
My typical day involves coming here to the workshop to coordinate
and interact with my team,
from early morning right throughout the day,
in order to solve all the problems that might arise
during the inspection and maintenance activities.
With each of them, so with each component expert,
we analyze the issues that emerge.
We also discuss with the relevant units
or anyone else who’s involved in the problem,
and we come up with a solution together.
Geothermal is something of a tradition in this area,
so now it’s something that the people feel belongs to them.
Having such a groundbreaking facility here is unique,
and that makes people proud
of what they have and what they’re a part of.
These power plants, and the whole geothermal sector,
have gone from having nothing digital at all
to having power plants that are controlled directly from here.
With everything we do here, within these workshops,
we produce energy from the earth, for the Earth.