The war in Ukraine has pointed the attention to the need to think again about energy. Invest in Trentino has decided to start a comprehensive and in-depth study on the subject of energy in the Province of Trento, which foresees different steps: from the analysis of the the strategic guidelines within the Provincial Environmental Energy Plan (PEAP), to the visit of local companies, passing through interviews to research centres to understand the technologies of the future.
As written in this article, the PEAP is an “important policy document has guided Trentino’s energy choices since 1979 and in forty years has grown with the times, adapting to changing needs. The primary goal of the 2021 – 2030 PEAP is to reach the end of the decade with a 55% reduction in the level of climate-changing gas emissions compared to 1990, in order to achieve the total decarbonisation required by the EU in 2050. An ambitious undertaking, which requires the contribution of everyone, from politicians to entrepreneurs, from industry to civil society.“
The Province constructed the Plan with the help of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, the University of Trento and the Fondazione Edmund Mach.
Within this framework, Invest in Trentino interviewed Luigi Crema – the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy, and Diego Viesi – the Head of Sustainable Territories Area.
Luigi Crema explained that the Centre SE “outlined the scenarios through which the Trentino energy system will be able to achieve the decarbonisation targets set by the European Union. Within these scenarios, the technologies in which investments will have to be made were identified as well as how they should be used. All taking into account the necessary costs and the level of decarbonisation brought about by the individual scenario”.
Diego Viesi explained that the Centre SE analysed 15.000 scenarios for 2030 and “150 were deemed optimal to enable the province to achieve precise decarbonisation targets at the lowest possible cost“. The Head of Sustainable Territories Area also focused on the tools used, which consisted in the EnergyPLAN software, and the an evolutionary multi-objective algorithm coupled with EnergyPLAN.
Listen to the interviews and read more about the involvement of research centres on the webpage.
The interviews are in Italian.