Apr 01, 2021
In order to reach the energy efficiency targets both at EU and national level, it will be essential to adopt policies that specifically address Europe's 25 million SMEs [1], which represent 99% of businesses and employ over 97 million employees.
Apr 01, 2021
Creating a sort of Vertical Pharmacy to grow medicinal plants with a high content of active ingredients to manufacture drugs and supplements. This is the objective of a collaboration between ENEA and Idromeccanica Lucchini Spa, which uses the Vertical Farm as the perfect ecosystem to grow more nutritious and healthy food, in a controlled environment removed from pathogens and pollutants.
Mar 18, 2021
Creating the first Italian Hydrogen Valley to develop a national supply chain for production, transport, storage and use of hydrogen, focusing on research, technologies, infrastructures and innovative services. The project, conceived by ENEA, kicks off with a 14 million euro investment (Mission Innovation funds to set up the first Italian technological incubator for the development of an hydrogen supply chain, in collaboration with universities, research institutes, associations and companies, to boost the energy transition and decarbonisation.
Mar 18, 2021
A research team comprising researchers from ENEA, the Universities of Verona and Viterbo, the CNR and ISS is working to use plants as 'biofactories' to produce vaccines, antibodies and diagnostic products against Covid, with the aim of meeting national demand rapidly, effectively and at low cost. The initiative concerns the use of Plant Molecular Farming, an innovative but robust platform already utilized in other countries to produce biopharmaceuticals.
Mar 18, 2021
ENEA, Paul Scherrer Institut and Polytechnic of Turin were awarded the Key innovator prize by the 'Innovation Radar' of the European Commission for developing an innovation studied and tested as part of the European project Waste2Watts.
Mar 18, 2021
Creating the first Italian blockchain-based network for the provision of services of public interest, in line with the principles of protection, integrity, interoperability and information sharing.
Mar 18, 2021
The Department of Public Function (DFP) ranked ENEA top for its Performance Reports compared to all public administrations which fall under its ambit.
Mar 18, 2021
ENEA and FOS Spa signed a license agreement to market in Italy and abroad "Microcosm", the first hi-tech field simulator made in Italy for indoor and extreme environment cultivation of plants like olive trees, potatoes, tomato, lettuce and basil, using soil as a substrate.
Mar 04, 2021
2020 will be remembered as the year of a record drop in energy consumption (-10% vs 2019) and CO2 emissions (-12%), which are now 40% lower than 2005 levels. This is one of the key messages of the ENEA Quarterly analysis of the Italian energy system, which highlights as well a significant improvement (+38%) of the ISPRED index, developed by ENEA to assess the Italian energy transition by combining indicators on energy prices, energy security and decarbonisation.
Mar 04, 2021
As of March 1, Eu energy labels of some home appliances were renewed and a simpler classification reintroduced, using a scale going from A (maximum efficiency) to G (low efficiency), in place of the classification from A "With three plus" (A +++) to G.
Mar 04, 2021
ENEA, together with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Technical University of Denmark and Solidpower industrial group, has developed an innovative process to produce electricity from organic waste as part of the European project Waste2GridS - W2G, Waste for Networks (electricity and gas).
Mar 04, 2021
ENEA President Federico Testa and Legacoop President Mauro Lusetti signed a memorandum of understanding on energy efficiency, the circular economy and digital transition to support innovative start-ups in cooperative entrepreneurship also through the "Fund for technology transfer", with the aim of promoting and strengthening innovation transfer to new green companies- like energy community cooperatives- and qualify their innovation processes.
Mar 04, 2021
The latest issue of the magazine Energy, the Environment and Innovation titled “Full speed ahead for energy efficiency”, dedicated to the Superbonus, the fiscal measure to make your property more energy efficient covering 110% of the costs through tax deductions, is online on the ENEA website.
Mar 04, 2021
Finding out the causes of the sharp rise in Arctic temperatures compared to the rest of the globe, a phenomenon known as "Arctic amplification", and study its complex dynamics. This is the goal of the projects ECAPAC and SENTINEL, coordinated by ENEA and Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council (Cnr-Isp) respectively and funded by the Arctic Research Program (PRA). Specifically, the study will investigate the role of sea ice, precipitation and bromine and mercury chemistry, important indicators for sea ice changes.
Feb 18, 2021
Identifying the potential of industrial hydrogen chains, innovative solutions and possible operational scenarios by strengthening the collaboration between research and industry. These are the goals of a strategic alliance -an actual "hydrogen pact"- signed by Confindustria and ENEA as part of the initiatives to reduce industrial energy supply costs, promote sustainability and develop frontier technologies
Feb 18, 2021
Developing flexible photovoltaic modules that can be integrated into architectural elements (BIPV) and industrial and sustainable products (PIPV), thanks to the exclusive use of non-toxic and earth-abundant elements. This is the goal of the European project CUSTOM-ART -funded by Horizon 2020 with 7 million euro- which comprises ENEA and 15 other partners including companies and research institutes from 10 European countries.
Feb 18, 2021
The Air quality site suitability map provides detailed information on urban air pollutants through a network of low-cost monitoring stations, both fixed and mobile, integrated with regional systems currently in use. Developed at the ENEA Portici Center in collaboration with the University of Naples Federico II as part of the project Air-Heritage, funded with 4.1 million euro by the third European Urban Innovative Actions call, it employs an innovative method that allows the control units to be optimally positioned considering territory and local-scale pollutant variability in urban aereas, according to a model tested in Portici, near Naples.
Feb 18, 2021
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables systems industry, in collaboration with Simitecno S.r.l. and ENEA, announced the launch of a pilot study for monitoring the SARS-Cov-2 virus in its Arco Felice plant in Pozzuoli (Naples).
Feb 18, 2021
ENEA researchers at the Brasimone (Bologna) and Casaccia (Rome) laboratories have patented a device to increase the production yield of radiopharmaceuticals to diagnose and treat tumors and other diseases. The method is based on an environment-friendly nuclear fusion process, alternative to that used to produce radioisotopes for nuclear medicine in fission reactors.
Feb 18, 2021
The "Mario Zucchelli" station closure and the return to Italy of the 2020-21 expedition team marked the end of the 36th summer campaign of the National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA), funded by the Ministry of University and Research with ENEA managing logistics and operations and the CNR coordinating scientific activities