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Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”), through its US-based renewables subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (“EGPNA”), has started operations of the Rock Creek wind farm in the United States. Rock Creek is the first Enel project to begin operations in the state of Missouri and is the largest operational wind farm in the state.

An Italian energy and telecom cable plant in Claremont will spend $54 million and add 50 jobs as it works to expand production there by 60%.

Leoni Cable Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. is investing 10 million euros ($11.6 million) for additional capacity at its plant in Pune, India.

LS Cable & System said Thursday it plans to invest 20 billion won ($18 million) to build a plant for electric car battery parts in Dzierzoniow, southwestern Poland.

Japanese-owned car parts maker Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze on Monday opened an electric cable systems in Moldova following a 30 million euro ($34.8 million) investment, Moldova's economy ministry said on Monday. The 27,000 sq m plant is located in the city of Orhei, which is under the administration of Balti free economic zone, the economy ministry said in a press release.

Enel, through its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power Peru (“EGPP”), has started operating a nanotechnology-based wastewater treatment plant for the construction site of its Wayra I wind project in Marcona, Ica Region, a one of a kind wastewater treatment plant in Latin America.

The energy and climate minister, Lars Christian Lilleholt, has approved a new power cable that will stretch from Denmark to the UK.

Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”), through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, announced today the acquisition of California-based eMotorWerks, a leading North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities. Through the JuiceNet platform, these facilities can be remotely controlled and aggregated for grid balancing purposes relying on unidirectional and bidirectional (vehicle-to-grid, V2G) electricity flows. The acquisition of eMotorWerks marks Enel’s entrance into the US electric mobility market, one of the largest EV markets at global level.

Metalloinvest has started pilot operation of the concentrate intake facility at Mikhailovsky GOK. The Company has invested 1.3 bn roubles in the project.

Enel has started the installation of 10 vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging units of 10 kW each to a pilot V2G hub in the Netherlands, launched by NewMotion, a leading European supplier of smart charging solutions for electric vehicles. This project involves the installation, near Amsterdam, of the Enel’s V2G units for a total capacity of 100 kW at private and commercial locations. Other partners in the project are Japanese company Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, which will provide 10 Outlander PHEV plug-in hybrid SUVs, as well as Dutch grid operator TenneT.