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General Electric announced that it will provide the Global Thermal Generation division of Enel (Europe’s largest power utility in terms of market capitalization) with its Predix-based software solutions to be deployed as predictive diagnostic tool in 14 of Enel’s thermal power plants located in Europe and Latin America, supporting their digitalization.
Enel signed a two-year agreement with Amber Kinetics, the US-based start-up born out of an initiative of professors and researchers from UC Berkeley, with the aim of jointly assessing the start-up’s innovative “flywheel” storage technology, which is an electromechanical system consisting of a large rotating mass able to store energy.
The pace of adoption for electric cars over the next few years “could be surprising” and changing the global energy and auto industries faster than people expect, said Enel Chief Executive Officer Francesco Starace in an interview with Bloomberg.