{"id":112515,"date":"2024-07-31T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2024\/07\/31\/aruba-reactivates-historic-hydroelectric-power-plant-in-melegnano\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:08:46","slug":"aruba-reactivates-historic-hydroelectric-power-plant-in-melegnano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2024\/07\/31\/aruba-reactivates-historic-hydroelectric-power-plant-in-melegnano\/","title":{"rendered":"Aruba\u00a0reactivates\u00a0historic hydroelectric power plant in Melegnano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aruba S.p.A&nbsp;\u2013 one of&nbsp;Italy&#8217;s leading providers of cloud, data centre, hosting, e-mail, domain registration and PEC (certified e-mail) services&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;has announced it has reactivated a hydroelectric power plant in&nbsp;Melegnano,&nbsp;near Milan,&nbsp;located&nbsp;in&nbsp;the same area where the company already owns another power plant,&nbsp;acquired in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hydroelectric power plant&nbsp;dates back to&nbsp;the early 1900s and&nbsp;was&nbsp;decommissioned decades ago by&nbsp;its&nbsp;previous&nbsp;owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With careful conservative restoration of the building&nbsp;and the&nbsp;revamping of all electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems,&nbsp;it has been possible to&nbsp;reactivate the power plant near the weir on the Lambro River.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using&nbsp;the&nbsp;MVF (minimum vital&nbsp;flow)&nbsp;management&nbsp;system,&nbsp;Aruba has&nbsp;also&nbsp;maintained&nbsp;the biological balance of the watercourse&nbsp;as best possible.&nbsp;With the reactivation of this site, the number of hydroelectric power plants&nbsp;owned by&nbsp;Aruba&nbsp;has risen&nbsp;to&nbsp;eight, with an installed capacity&nbsp;of about 10MW&nbsp;of hydro capacity in operation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the two in&nbsp;Melegnano,&nbsp;on the Lambro River,&nbsp;Aruba owns&nbsp;three power plants near Ponte San Pietro (BG) on the Brembo&nbsp;River,&nbsp;two on the&nbsp;AsticoRiver, in&nbsp;Chiuppano&nbsp;and Calvene (VI) and one in&nbsp;Pontebba&nbsp;(UD) on the Fella River.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aruba&nbsp;will&nbsp;continue to invest in strengthening its&nbsp;ability&nbsp;to generate energy from renewable sources, particularly through&nbsp;hydropower and photovoltaics, with&nbsp;the long-term view&nbsp;to ensuring the sustainability&nbsp;of operations&nbsp;across&nbsp;the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This strategy is in line with the goals of the Climate Neutral Data&nbsp;Centre&nbsp;Pact,&nbsp;which&nbsp;set&nbsp;a&nbsp;goal for the&nbsp;climate neutrality of&nbsp;all signatories\u2019&nbsp;data centres&nbsp;by 2030.&nbsp;The&nbsp;initiative demonstrates a common and shared commitment with other&nbsp;European cloud and data&nbsp;centre&nbsp;companies&nbsp;to proactively drive the transition to full&nbsp;energy sustainability. Aruba&nbsp;was&nbsp;among some of the first data&nbsp;centre&nbsp;operators to have already certified adherence to the&nbsp;agreement&nbsp;through an&nbsp;audit conducted specifically to measure its compliance with the goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aruba S.p.A&nbsp;\u2013 one of&nbsp;Italy&#8217;s leading providers of cloud, data centre, hosting, e-mail, domain registration and PEC (certified e-mail) services&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;has announced it has reactivated a hydroelectric power plant in&nbsp;Melegnano,&nbsp;near Milan,&nbsp;located&nbsp;in&nbsp;the same area where the company already owns another power plant,&nbsp;acquired in 2020. The hydroelectric power plant&nbsp;dates back to&nbsp;the early 1900s and&nbsp;was&nbsp;decommissioned decades ago by&nbsp;its&nbsp;previous&nbsp;owner. 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