Italgas e I3P, business incubator of the Turin Polytechnic, launch a competition for startups. It is called "Ideas 4 Italgas" and aims to select technologies capable of contributing to the digital transformation that the gas distribution group is carrying out.
The research focuses on specific sectors:
- energy efficiency in industrial and residential areas;
- car fleet management and personnel mobility;
- monitoring, management and control of the network infrastructure;
- the safety of field workers;
- the development of filtering, transport and storage processes for traditional energy vectors and the exploration of emerging ones (for example hydrogen or gas blending).
“Innovative startups already established and registered in the special section of the business register with metrics (turnover, customers) and trained and dedicated teams can participate free of charge – explains Italgas in a note – as well as innovative small and medium-sized companies registered in the special section of the register companies with asset resources and teams dedicated to the project presented (maturity stages: ready to market, validated prototype, prototype, idea)".
The collection of applications is open on the Italgas website until Monday 7 December. Participants will then be evaluated by a committee of experts who will select the finalist projects by 21 December. Finally, the winners will be announced at the final event which will take place by the end of January.
Still in the field of startups, Snam e CDP they gave birth to Arbolia, a company created to create green areas in Italian cities and territories. The goal is "to contribute to the improvement of air quality and the fight against climate change - reads a note - by generating opportunities for social and economic development".
Arbolia has the ambition to plant 3 million trees in Italy by 2030, which would absorb around 200 thousand tons of CO2 each year. "The company meets the need of companies to invest in interventions of this type to reduce their carbon footprint", continues the note.
