Smart Energy & Smart Cities

@ENEA

Smart Energy & Smart Cities

@ENEA

Smart Energy Division

Energy Technologies Dept.

ENEA

Smart Energy Division

Energy Technologies Dept.

ENEA

About us

• ENEA is the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy

and Sustainable Economic Development

• It is a public RTO (Research and Technology Organization) operating

in the fields of energy, environment and new technologies to

support Country’s competitiveness and sustainable development

• ENEA’s mission is to develop new technological solutions to meet

the societal challenges, fostering transition to the low carbon

economy

• The institutional mandate of the Agency is to disseminate and

transfer knowledge, innovation and technology to industry,

institutions and civil society at large

Activities

ENEA mainly operates to promote and carry out basic and applied

research and innovation activities:

• Research: basic, mission-oriented, applied and industrial research,

also through development of prototypes and product

industrialization

• Technology Transfer: dissemination and transfer of research

results to industry and exploitation for production purposes

• Advanced services: studies, measurements, tests and

assessements to both public and private bodies and enterprises

• Training and information: activities aimed at broadening sector

expertise and public knowledge and awareness

Research facilities and staff

Human Resources

2623 permanent staff (31/12/14):

•36% women

•59% graduates

Research facilities

• 9 Research Centres

• 5 Research Laboratories

• 11 territorial offices

• Brussels Liaison Office

• Headquarters in Rome

Foggia Laboratory

Research and Development

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• RES (PV, CSP)

• Energy efficiencytechnologies

• Bio-fuels

• Smart energy*

• Storage

• Sustainable Mobility

• Advanced energymaterials

• Sustainable use of fossilfuels

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• Fusion

• Fission (new gen)

• Radiation protection

• Nuclear safety & security

• Ionizing/non ionizing

radiation applications

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• Environmental

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• Climate change:

modeling, adaptation and

mitigation

• Prevention and Recovery

• Seismic and natural

hazards assessment and

prevention

• Bio and nanotechs

• Agrifood

Energy: RES & low carbon technologies

ENEA carries out R&D of technologies for the exploitation of renewable energy sources, aiming at reducing

greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels.

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)

• Research Facility with linear parabolic collectors and molten salts heat pipes (ENEA patented technology)

Photovoltaics

•New generation PV systems and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV)

•New PV materials: Thin film, high-efficiency PV cells, organic photovoltaics

Solar Thermal Energy at low and medium temperatures

•Optimization of solar collectors, development of components and systems for solar cooling

•Energetic characterization of solar collectors at low and medium temperature

Biomass and bio-fuels

•Production of hydrogen from agricultural waste, biogas and bio-fuels from biomass

•Production of bio-fuels from micro-algae

Distributed generation and Energy Storage Systems

•Electrochemical systems for the conversion and storage of hydrogen energy, supercapacitors

•Co-generation systems, fuel cells, new materials, high-efficiency lithium batteries

•Distributed power generation and renewable sources

Smart cities

•Smart public lighting

•Smart Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and demand-response systems

•Smart Grids and use services of RES in electricity distribution grids

The Smart Energy Division

Mission: research & development, application and rollout of a systemic approach for

smart cities & smart regions

• 86 permanent staff, 10 temporary

• Rome (Casaccia), Bologna, Varese (Ipra-JRC), Bari

• 4 laboratories

APIC: Analisys and Protection of Critical Infrastructures

• Optimization of solar collectors, development of components and systems for solar cooling

• Application of Complexity Theory, mobile interaction device & app, web based applications

CROSS: Cross Technologies for Urban and Industrial Districts

• Inter-operability, standard, system architecture, ICT platform, smart grids

• Cooperative industrial networks, textiles, energy efficiency

IDRA: Distributed Intelligence and Robotics for People and Environment• Robotics, swarm intelligence, marine autonomous robots

• Assisted Living, IOT

SCC: Smart Cities & Communities

• Smart district: public lighting, smart services, smart building, demand side management, ICT platform

• Smart communities, assisted living, smart homes, cooperative governance, living labs

The map of Smart Cities

projects of ENEA

from Smart

Village…

ROMA

Espresso Res Novae

Smart

Basilicata

Brescia Smart

Living

City 2.0

Smart

Village

Lumiere

Public Energy

Living Lab

CIPRnet

to the

cities…