Energy: NEDO and ENEA to sign a Memorandum of Understanding

NEDO Executive Director, Munehiko Tsuchiya, and ENEA Commissioner, Federico Testa, will sign on 24^th February at the ENEA Headquarters in Rome a Memorandum of Understanding concerning a joint implementation of an international demonstration project of voltage source converter for high voltage direct current system in Italy.

The meeting will be attended by His Excellency Kazuyoshi Umemoto, Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Italy and by Teresa Bellanova, Deputy Minister of the Italian Ministry of economic development.

The demonstration project will be hosted at the ENEA Casaccia Research centre and will actually contribute to increasing energy efficiency and environmental sustainability by accelerating knowledge development and technology transfer, in a framework of full coherence with the EU SET Plan strategy.