Apr 14, 2022
Some anti-Covid measures adopted at the beginning of the pandemic – such as the lockdown and traffic restrictions – led to a dramatic decline in air pollution, with consequent health benefits as well. An international study on air quality trends in 47 European cities—including Rome, Milan, Paris, London and Barcelona—highlights this. Carried out by numerous research institutions, including ENEA, the study was published in Nature.
Apr 14, 2022
There is a shortage of many raw materials and when these can be found, prices are exorbitant. The causes are varied: the growing increase in demand; the climate crisis, which diminishes the capacity of ecosystems to provide resources and intensifies certain needs; the pandemic, which has imposed a lengthy setback on the global economy; and the conflict in Ukraine, which has exacerbated Europe’s energy fragility. The solution exists and is called the circular economy. But it has not taken off yet.
Apr 14, 2022
Measuring air pollution and landscape visibility in Italian nature parks. This is the objective of project “Visibility”, coordinated by the Forestry, Environmental and Agri-food Command Unit (CUFA) of the Carabinieri in partnership with the ENEA Air Pollution laboratory. The project will apply, for the first time in Italy, the procedure adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for measuring visibility in America’s nature reserves.
Apr 14, 2022
An innovative building material with competitive prices, equipped with high levels of thermal and acoustic insulation, extremely resistant to fire and mechanical stresses and with characteristics that make it suitable for use in other sectors.
Apr 14, 2022
To develop new computer codes through innovative, automatic and secure methods thanks to the Software Heritage universal archive of source codes. This is the objective of the “Bologna Big Code Lab”, a joint knowledge and experimentation laboratory born thanks to an agreement between ENEA and the University of Bologna, in partnership with Software Heritage and with the support of iFAB, International Foundation Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Development.
Apr 14, 2022
A network of 67 thermometer sensors positioned from 5 to 60 meters in depth to control the temperature of the Tyrrhenian Sea and monitor the impact of climate change on the marine ecosystem and coastal dynamic processes. This is what has been achieved by the MedFever project, which unites ENEA as a scientific partner, the MedSharks association as coordinator, the Lush company and a group of volunteer scuba divers.
Mar 31, 2022
2021 was the year of the rebound in energy consumption (+8% with respect to 2020), despite the unprecedented increase in electricity and gas prices. This is what emerges from ENEA's Quarterly Analysis of the Italian energy system, which also highlights a sharp rise in CO2 emissions (+8.5%; 70% of CO2 emissions “lost” in 2020 for the pandemic has been recovered) and a sharp worsening (-27%) of the ISPRED index, a composite index developed by the Agency to measure the energy transition on the basis of the trend in energy security, energy prices and CO2 emissions. In addition, the share of renewable sources is now below 19% of final consumption, down by more than one percentage point compared to the peak reached in 2020.
Mar 31, 2022
Integrating electronics in car upholstery by using hi-tech fabrics made with carbon fiber scraps is one of the objectives of the industrial research project TEX-STYLE, which includes among its members ENEA and the Fiat Research Center (CRF) as coordinator.
Mar 31, 2022
Applications to participate in the international competition "Agrivoltaic for Noah's Ark", which will award the "best agrivoltaic garden", are open until 20 June 2022. The initiative is promoted by ENEA, the NeoruraleHub company, the National Institute of Architecture (IN/Arch), ETA Florence Renewable Energies and the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture (AIAPP). With the support of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Lombardy Region, Municipality of
Mar 31, 2022
The energy performance of housing in our country is slightly improving. According to the Annual Report on the Energy Certification of Buildings by ENEA and the Italian Thermotechnical Committee (CTI), in 2020 the energy performance certificates (APE) in the intermediate and lower classes decreased in the residential sector (-1.2% compared to 2019) to increase in the higher energy classes.
Mar 31, 2022
Valentina Feliziani, economist and head of the ENEA Economic and Social Security Management Service, and Rossana Cotroneo, researcher at the Innovation Projects Management Unit of the ENEA Technological Development Division were selected to be part of a task force set up by the Ministry of Economic Development to make industrial policy in Italy operate more effectively.
Mar 31, 2022
ENEA and University of Bologna, in collaboration with Hera Group and Irritec, have developed a technologically advanced prototype which uses purified wastewater for crop irrigation and fertilization, saving considerable amounts of water, providing nutrients which substitute chemical fertilizers and improving environmental sustainability and quality of the water purification chain.
