The 18th annual Workshop of the CESEF Energy Efficiency Study Center was held on Thursday XNUMX October in Milan “Energy Efficiency and Energy and Climate Plan. Between investments by utilities and increasingly distant goals” chaired by Prof. Andrea Gilardoni, Bocconi University and President of Agici, and by Stefano Clerici, Director of CESEF.
“The energy efficiency sector needs stability to get investments off the ground and transform the very high national technological and managerial skills in the field of energy efficiency into interventions with high added value – he said Andrea Gilardoni. What our country lacks is therefore governance with a clear long-term vision that gives greater certainty to the market and actively contributes to the achievement of national and European policy objectives. This is not only essential for the 2020 goals, which we will hardly achieve, but even more so for the 2030 goals. In fact, EE will continue to play a leading role in decarbonising our economy in the following decade as well. It is one of the pillars of the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan being defined at the MiSE, MATTM, MIT ministries. For our part, we will actively collaborate with the Monitor PEC initiative to support the drafting of this document, with a view to full support for governance".
"TEEs are an excellence at European level, we therefore believe that they should be supported and relaunched, overcoming this phase of emergency interventions - he reiterated Stefano Clerici. The provision promulgated in July (Ministerial Decree of 10 May 2018, ed) has not in fact resolved the causes of the crisis in the mechanism. Nor, much less, does it seem to have restored confidence to operators who use this tool less and less. Nonetheless, companies strongly believe in this sector as evidenced by M&A operations conducted above all by utilities and investments in new businesses - i.e. demand response, IoT, electric mobility, behavioral measures, etc. – of the more structured operators”.
Il undersecretary of the MiSE Hon. Davide Crippa, who concluded the works, outlined the Government's "recipe" for relaunching investments in energy efficiency. In particular, “the National Fund for energy efficiency, a fundamental instrument for financing, needs to be launched as soon as possible; provide for a quality labeling of the projects to guarantee the financeability of the projects and encourage the investments of the municipalities; relaunch the TEE mechanism through interpretative guidelines, also resolving ongoing disputes, also because launching a new instrument would take too long to restart investments. Finally, it is necessary to stabilize the eco-bonus for at least three years, to guarantee the necessary decision-making times for investors, and to provide for a control room for energy efficiency in the Public Administration, which can identify regulatory changes that favor cooperation between the public and private sectors" .
At the Workshop – where the 2018 Report "The evolution of energy efficiency in Italy: new policies, market consolidation and behavioral measures" – the following spoke as speakers: Davide Crippa of the Ministry of Economic Development, Raffaele Cattaneo of the Lombardy Region, Raffaele Tiscar of the Energy and Climate Plan Monitor, Guido Bortoni ARERA, Giovanni Bartucci of Alperia-Bartucci, Alessio Cristofari of Avvenia, Alessio Torelli of Enel X, Pier Lorenzo dell'Orco of Italgas, Cristian Purchasepace of Snam, Paolo Leone of ABB, Roberto Piccin of CESI, Péter Ilyés of E.On, PierPaolo Carini of Egea, Mauro Fanfoni of Eni Gas and Light, Cristian Fabbri of Hera Comm, Paolo Bonaretti of Iren, Luca Matrone of Intesa Sanpaolo, Raffaele Mellone of Fondo Italiano Efficienza Energetica, Franco Gallina of Funk International and Marco Radice of Studio Radice&Cereda.
CESEF also awarded the Energy Efficiency Award 2018 for the “Best Energy Efficiency Project Idea in the Industrial Sector” to Hera, Research on the Energy System (RSE) and Galletti Group, a historic company in the field of air conditioning in Italy. In particular, thanks to the implementation of the project, which involves the use of heat pumps in the industrial sector (an application that is not very common in this sector), it was possible to devise an intervention involving a plant owned by a multinational company in the chemical-food sector . The installation of these machines will be fundamental, as they will make it possible to recover the low-temperature heat, otherwise dispersed into the atmosphere, from the industrial water used to cool the systems, obtaining a significant reduction in primary energy.
