The chill winds lashing the Arctic coasts near Murmansk will soon provide a new sort of warming effect – a wind farm that will be Russia’s largest, supplying as much as 750 gigawatts of electricity a year.
The Russian-Italian joint project – which will place 57 wind turbines on the coast of the Barents Sea about 80 kilometers from Murmansk – could avoid the release of some 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
The Kolskaya wind farm, which will open in 2020, is the work of Italy’s Enel and its subsidiary Enel Green Power.
“With the start of construction of this facility, we are confirming our commitment to Russia’s energy transition towards a low-carbon economy,” Enel Group’s Head of Europe and Euro-Mediterranean Affair said at the wind farm’s ground-breaking ceremony late last month - Link
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