Regione Puglia Requalification, protection and security of the environment policies Area Regional policies for endorsing Renewable Energy production in Apulia Department Director: A. Antonicelli
Main focuses - Regional policies for renewable energies in Puglia Region - Renowable energy production in Italy and in Puglia - Funding the policy - Best practices - Green growth trajectory - Main players 2
Energy context in Italy and in Apulia Region Lack of National energy plan Burden Sharing Decree Piano Energetico Ambientale Regionale Puglia: Reduction of the Carbon emissions Energy efficiency Energy production from renewables Opposition to nuclear power 3
Energy context in Apulia The regional system boasts a series of strong points: 1. a predisposition for compatible agro-energy, that is confirmed by the availability of agricultural land already allocated to growing biomasses; 2. a climatic opportunity (Apulia is one of the regions with the highest level of solar irradiation in Europe and with a high levels of wind in some sub-regional zones); 3. a substantial heritage of existing buildings that offer important requalification opportunities aimed at maximizing energy efficiency, above all in civil residential settlements and public buildings. 4
The average of solar radiation per unit area equal to an average daily sum of 4.6 KWh/m2/day (Source: Fondazione Eni, Enrico Mattei, 2009), compared to a national annual average which ranges between 3.6 and 5.4 KWh/m2/day (Source: ENEA, 2009). Irradiation map solaritaly.enea.it/ 5
Production almost double than consumption 6
Already reached!! 7
About 10.000 PV plants only in Apulia for 800 MWp Average power: 80 kwp 960.000 MWh of potential production Avoided: - 700.000 oil drums - 600.000 CO2 tons (same as 270.000 cars a year) 8
Energy production in Apulia Region Regioni CFL Consumi Obiettivo FER regionale al 2020 [ktep] [ktep] [%] Abruzzo 2779 526 18,9 Basilicata 1119 365 32,6 Calabria 2386 664 27,8 Campania 6641 1100 16,6 Emilia Romagna 13912 1222 8,8 Friuli V. Giulia 3500 441 12,6 Lazio 9962 1196 12 Liguria 2872 413 14,4 Lombardia 26088 2885 11,1 Marche 3524 540 15,3 Molise 619 236 38,1 Piemonte 11497 1709 14,9 Puglia 9354 1354 14,5 Sardegna 3706 743 20 Sicilia 7367 1183 16,1 TAA-Bolzano 1331 470 35,3 TAA-Trento 1388 501 36,1 Toscana 9429 1554 16,5 Umbria 2599 354 13,6 Valle d Aosta 538 286 53,2 Veneto 12431 1271 10,2 Totale 133042 19.010* 14,3 9
Funding the policy -Interregional Operational Plan (POI) called Renewable energy and energy saving together with other regions (Campania, Calabria and Sicily); -ERDF Apulia 2007-2013 -Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and in particular the project called High-capacity hydrogen based green-energy storage solutions for the grid balancing INGRID in order to rationalize use and storage of energy of our electrical grid. 10
Best practices Research project for the identification of the energetic potential from geothermal sources. Financing productive activities engaged in the production of components for the industrial renewable power plants (wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, engines ). This has resulted in the production of these components in the territory of the Region, rather than import them from abroad. Financing of the development of sustainable patterns in areas that are particularly valuable from an environmental point of view (Tremiti islands, natural parks, so on and so forth..) Call of 100 millions, for the implementation of small and de-localized plants for the production of energy from biomasses. This call is particularly relevant for our Region which is characterized by a massive agricultural activity. In fact, the idea is to transform what is generally considered as a problem thus, as a cost - in an economic, social and environmental benefit. In fact, will be financed plants able to transform the agricultural wastes (for instance, from the production of olive oil or from lopping), and in general the organic waste, through anaerobic processes, in energy sources. 11
Regional Law nb.3 decided that every brand new houses in Apulia have to implement, by building codes, an energy production from renewable sources at least for 1 kw per house. For every industrial house more than 100 square meters extended smallest production requested is 5 kw. Apulia region approved guide-lines that allow any enterprise operating in energy production field to be enrolled in a local register of public houses and grounds tenants reserved to PV and energetic facilities installations. During the competitive tender for assigning this public houses (at least 20 years for 12 Euros per kw), only these enterprises could participate There were allocated 75 M in favor of Aree vaste (multimunicipality aggregation) for this in order to upgrade building efficiency, with a participation of municipality funds (15%). 12
Best practices The Puglia Region and Terna, the company responsible for the development of the National Electricity Transmission Grid in Italy, signed an important memorandum of understanding for applying the SEA ( Strategic Environmental Assessment ) to planning the development activity for the high voltage electricity grid. With this agreement, the Puglia Region and Terna undersigned a commitment aimed at accelerating and reducing the authorization procedures for development measures submitted to the SEA and at submitting to a prior evaluation any environmental and territorial impact the new electricity infrastructures may have in the region, as part of a shared and coordinated process with the local institutions. 13
Most concentrated area: Sub-Apennines area 14
Green growth trajectory - Energy main players Public research entities In Apulia there are two Institutes of the National Research Council (CNR) that are concerned with renewable energy and energy efficiency: the Institute for Construction Technologies (ITC) and the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM): The first, with head office in Bari, is engaged in applied research, certification, experimentation and training in the civil construction and tertiary sectors. The Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM), located in Lecce, is involved in various renewable energy projects, even financed by the European Union The Experimental Agronomic Institute of the National Council for Agricultural Research and Experimentation (CRA), with offices in Bari, is involved in agro-energy research, in particular of the suitability of the agricultural use of biomass coming from agro-industrial and bio-activator waste sources. The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (IAMB), involved in agriculture research and international cooperation Public/private research centres The Laser Center, a research and technological transfer centre, has expertise in the field of sensors and combustion processes, environmental technologies, definition of prototypes and CO2 monitoring systems for combustion control. The Laser Centre works in conjunction with the Bari Polytechnic on anemometry studies. The University of Hydrogen, "H2U" and the consequent development of a network of hydrogen dispensers in each province of Apulia and the development of solar and thermodynamic plants resulting from a project, coordinated by the Nobel Prize winner Carlo Rubbia, that aims at the realization of plants transforming solar energy into electric energy. 15
CETMA, a consortium with a mixed public-private capital, has specific skills in materials engineering, information engineering and industrial design CESE (Public Services and Energy Research Centre) is very new: this is a consortium established with the Bari Polytechnic, AMGAS of Bari and AMET of Trani. The objective of the consortium is to support two companies with professional modernization and the preparation of studies for the attainment of greater efficiency for energy services, environmental impact analysis, cost/benefit analysis and energy policy impact evaluations. Finally, the activities of the Environmental Education Laboratories (LEA), is active in Apulia on a provincial basis. The Environmental Education Laboratories are promotion centres for environmental information and education activities and coordinates the activities of In.F.E.A. (Environmental Information, Training and Education) on a provincial level. The research done by ENEL is articulated at a company level in 4 operational units, consisting of a network of research centees, laboratories and experimental stations that are involved in five categories of research: combustion; pollution reduction; diagnostics and automation; new generation systems; waste. The CRIS (Innovative Researches Consortium for the South) research centre is a research consortium among industrial and research firms of the Ansaldo Finmeccanica Group in Gioia del Colle where its activities include the study of clean combustion technologies and the reduction of emissions using experimental equipment. It is currently busy with research activities on distributed generation with reference to renewable energy The FIAT Research Centre is an excellence centre for the automotive sector and have offices throughout Italy. The centre in Bari, at Valenzano, is involved in the design, development and control of new fuel injection systems 16
Districts Distretto Tecnologico Nazionale dell Energia (National and Technological District of Energy, DiTNE) is based in Brindisi and collaborates with research institutes, universities and other firms to transfer technological knowledge to the enterprises. Apulia is therefore in the forefront for green building on the national level. In 2008, the region promoted the Distretto Regionale dell'edilizia Sostenibile (Regional District of Sustainable green building). The District collaborates with more than 150 entities such as construction companies, producers of biological materials and institutes for scientific research. The Productive District called La Nuova Energia gathers several small and medium enterprises, local authorities and municipalities, associations and research bodies, each specialized in one or more phase of productive chain. The District has engaged the Department of Planning and Management of the Agro Zootechnical and Forestry systems (PRO.GE.SA.) in order to carry out research on the following subjects: (i) utilization of renewable energy sources for distributed micro-generation, construction systems for the reduction of energy consumption, life-cycle assessment (LCA) of the structures for agriculture; management of the waste produced from zootechnical breeding and from agribusiness; (ii) development of highly innovative plant and machinery, for oil-mills, cellars and cooling stations inter alia using ecocompatible technology; (iii) technologies for the exploitation of energy from biomasses: supply chains, conversion plants and territorial analyses. 17
Strenghts Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Good availability of agricultural land Too much bureaucracy and delay in authorization acquisition (administrative burden) expecially related of very high number of applications Structural funds from EC (e.g. POI Energia) False applications, speculation for mere economy purposes Apulia is one of the regions with the highest level of solar irradiation and a good wind exposure in some places Lack of networking in renewable energy experiences between different entities Regional support to the development of industrial districts Incomplete supply chains (most PV components are imported from abroad) substantial heritage of existing buildings that offer important requalification opportunities Rapid changing in law, State- Regions concurring matters with State often reserving the right to intervene using its powers Recent improvements in regulatory frameworks, at national (DM 10/9/2010, and Dlgs 28/2011) and regional level (RR 24/2010 and new web-based application platform) Cumulative environmental impact (exp. on landscape and rural economies) due to close siting of a very high number of plants Leading italian region for both wind and solar (PV) power Insufficient grid capacity Relevant expertise in regional planning, according to sustainable development topics 18
Thanks for your kind attention Regione Puglia Requalification, protection and security of the environment policies Area Department Director: A. Antonicelli a.antonicelli@regione.puglia.it autorita.ambientale@regione.puglia.it 19