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
• * Including robotics
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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…