ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
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Environment: ENEA studies concentrations of microplastics from tires into the air
05 February 2026

An international study published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, conducted as part of the European POLYRISK project, in collaboration with ENEA, shows that concentrations of microplastics generated by tires in the air can be up to five times higher in urban areas with heavy traffic, where vehicles brake and accelerate frequently.
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Innovation: ENEA presents CI-RES platform to support resilience strategies
05 February 2026

ENEA has developed CI-RES an innovative platform designed to support national institutions and operators of essential services in risk assessment and resilience planning. Leveraging a WebGIS interface that integrates territorial datasets, hazard maps, and information on critical infrastructures, CI-RES enables comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities, hazards, risks, potential impacts, and cascading effects across interconnected systems.
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Energy: Nanomaterials from rice waste for batteries and supercapacitors
05 February 2026

Batteries and supercapacitors made from materials derived from a rice by-product, husk, are at the center of research activities conducted by ENEA, Sapienza University of Rome and the Polytechnic University of Turin. The first results, published in the international journals Molecules and Journal of Energy Storage, show that future electrochemical energy storage devices could rely on two innovative nanostructured materials—carbon aerogels and graphene quantum dots—produced from cellulose found in widely available common biomass.
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Nuclear: Fusion energy, Divertor Tokamak Test reaches a major milestone
05 February 2026

A major breakthrough has been achieved for the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) project, the fully Italian experimental fusion reactor under construction at the ENEA Research Center in Frascati (Rome). The first 170 GHz, 1 MW gyrotron for the DTT Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ECRH) system, has successfully completed its acceptance tests at the FALCON facility in Lausanne, hosted by the Swiss Plasma Centre (SPC).
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Energy: Solutions to reduce consumption in the fruit juice industry
05 February 2026

A study conducted by ENEA, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno, published in the journal Food, shows that the fruit juice industry could reduce electricity consumption by 20% and thermal consumption by 60% by adopting the innovative PEF pulsed electric field technology with heat recovery from pasteurization
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Food: Healthier and more nutritious snacks thanks to PROMEDLIFE project
05 February 2026

Healthy, nutritious, and tasty crisps, yogurt, and bars are some of the new snacks created as an alternative to so-called "junk food" by the international PROMEDLIFE project, which aimed to promote the Mediterranean Diet as a healthy, sustainable, and accessible dietary model.
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Environment: Mediterranean, 2024 hottest year in the last 40 years
22 January 2026

According to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, conducted by ENEA in collaboration with the CNR and the MedSharks association - which analyzed in detail the spatiotemporal variability of the 2024 thermal anomaly and the mechanisms that determined it - the Mediterranean is experiencing a record-smashing climate phase with record temperatures in both the western and eastern Mediterranean and heat waves, combined with a significant increase in the average kinetic energy of currents, with 2024 recording the highest value in the entire historical series (40 years).
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ENEA al Festival "Un solo mare" - One Ocean: il mare visto dal mare
15 February 2026
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Save the date! ENEA a KEY 2026 | The Energy Transition Expo
04 March 2026
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Save the date! La gestione circolare del fosforo: risultati e prospettive della Piattaforma Italiana del Fosforo
11 March 2026
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Save the date! Meeting Task 2 IEA Cities TCP – Data for Urban Energy Planning
18 March 2026
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Save the date! 40 anni dell’Osservatorio Meteo-Climatologico Antartico (IAMCO) dell'ENEA
15 April 2026




