Busy day for Enel, which today signed a memorandum of understanding with Aeneas on innovative technologies, while the top management of the company held a meeting with Greenpeace to outline the guidelines on the company's environmental commitment.
The agreement signed with Enea provides for a collaboration between the two companies in the technologies for the use of alternative fuels in traditional plants, such as biomass and plant residues, as well as in the development of technologies for the environment, the climate and to increase the flexibility of use of traditional plants.
A specific line of research will concern the optimization of solutions for producing electricity by exploiting the wave motion of the sea, while a particular focus will be given to new generation photovoltaics. A detailed joint work plan on topics of mutual interest will be established within six months.
As for understanding with GreenpeaceAs mentioned, today a meeting was held in Rome between an Enel delegation led by the CEO Francesco Starace and Greenpeace whose delegation was led by director executive of Greenpeace International Kumi Naidoo and the president of Greenpeace Italy Andrea Purgatori.
The group that produces and distributes electricity has decided to focus on a greater development of renewable sources, energy efficiency, smart grids and accumulation systems (storage), and furthermore the company has undertaken to progressively abandon new investments in the coal chain.
Enel intends to share with Greenpeace the path already started by the new top management of the company and, accepting the invitation of the Association itself, position itself as a progressive company in the international energy sector. Enel's new strategic imperatives are in line with the objectives that Greenpeace has expressed in campaigns specifically aimed at the Group, one of the seven largest electricity companies in the world.
In fact, Enel shares the concerns about the global climate expressed by a large part of the international scientific community and the objective of limiting the increase in global temperature to below 2°C. The group has already reduced specific CO emissions2 by more than 36% compared to 1990.
