The Moncalieri power plant has the most advanced technologies for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat and is, together with the North Turin plant, the main source of heat that feeds Turin’s district heating network.
The plant consists of two natural gas-fuelled combined-cycle cogeneration plants, the 2nd GT and the 3rd GT, with a total electrical output of about 800 MW and a thermal output in cogeneration mode of about 520 MW.
The two cogenerators achieve electrical efficiencies of over 57% and, in cogeneration mode, over 87%. There is also a heat integration and reserve plant within the power plant with a total capacity of 141 MWt.