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TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE TERRITORY

ENEA’s intent is to face the growing challenges from the anthropic and natural pressures on the environment and territory with a view to sustainable development and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In this framework, ENEA’s activities are particularly focused on: sustainability of energy production-consumption interaction, energy efficiency, mobility, environmental balance and territory, the natural risks the national territory is exposed to, the effects of climate change and the related adaptation and mitigation policies. Further attention is paid to the interactive processes between the various components and to minimising the negative effects by means of studies, territory characterisation, innovation and promotion of the best and most advanced technologies, studies related to the energy uses in the tertiary, building and transport sectors, as they are most resistant to emission reduction policies in our Country and not only.

ENEA is particularly dedicated to developing the following STRATEGIC PROJECTS:

  • Technologies and Methods for the Assessment of Energy Settlements
    Objectives: To develop methodologies and tools for territorial planning and governance allowing for newly-conceived industrial development programmes, and the transformation of energy and environmental resources into a value for the territory.
  • The Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change Adaptation
    Objectives: To work out an action plan for Italy to adjust to the European and International targets as to climate change and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the post-Kyoto process.
  • Technologies for Sustainable Waste Management
    Objectives: To transfer innovative technologies for waste flow treatment in order to increase the eco-efficiency of cycles and their sustainability; to develop innovative technologies for matter and energy recovery.
  • Ecobuilding
    Objectives: To develop energy-efficiency and ecobuilding technologies for the residential and non-residential civil sectors by way of a methodology focused on the integrated energy district model and the implementation of a demonstration project.
  • Management and Safety of Technology and Energy Infrastructures
    Objectives: To support the Country system faced with the challenges of globalisation, privatisation of large technology infrastructures, and market liberalisation by using an organic system of knowledge on Critical Infrastructure Protection, ICT technologies, and solutions developed with a view to reduce their vulnerability, methodologies and models.
  • Sustainable Mobility and Transport
    Objectives: To contribute to the rationalisation of long-distance freight transport by reducing road transport shares, fostering multi-modal transport (by road, rail, ship), and setting up a demonstrative system for the optimisation of interport management.

as well as the following LINES OF ACTIVITIES:

  • Climate Studies and Modelling
    Objectives: Study of climate variability, coastal marine environment, climate impacts on the environment; development of proper climate models.
  • Sustainable Development and Eco-compatible Management of the Territory
    Objectives: Development of ICT advanced systems and technologies for the analysis and management of the territory; fostering of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; analysis of the main natural and anthropic risks.
  • Characterisation and Protection of the Environment and Territory
    Objectives: Development of procedures, analytical and diagnostic systems, methods of solid-, liquid-, and gas-matrix environmental analysis, mathematical models for environmental study, characterisation and protection; study of the effects produced by different causes (earthquakes, wind, traffic, atmospheric pollution, etc.) on particularly-strategic structures and important industrial facilities.
  • Eco-compatible Technologies
    Objectives: Development of: technologies for water management and protection; technologies for the reduction of the anthropic impact; methodologies and instruments for the environmental assessment, management and certification, the analysis of product life-cycle, Eco-design and the identification and creation of product/service eco-innovation paths.
  • Environmental Recovery
    Objectives: R&D activities and technological innovation related to proper management of waste cycle, the recovery of polluted sites and the application of the environmental engineering principles.
  • Air Quality
    Objectives: Description of air pollution phenomenology as to those sectors having high impact on the environment (agriculture, transport, energy production, urban development); setting-up of policy tools and development of models aimed at assessing the efficacy of the provisions adopted and their costs.
  • Integrated Tools for Agro-ecosystems Management
    Objectives: Setting-up of functional relationships between global environmental change and agro-ecosystems; suggestion of solutions for reducing agro-ecosystems and rural environment degradation processes in terms of mitigation and adaptation.
  • Building Materials
    Objectives: Testing and application of new building materials and solutions for civil engineering, and development of innovative methods for structural diagnostics and monitoring.