- ‘Global wind day’, press release
Ravennanotizie: Oggi è la ‘Giornata mondiale del vento’, obiettivo sostenere lo sviluppo dell’energia eolica June 16th 2014
- June 15th: Powered Project for the ‘Global Wind Day’
June 15th, is the ‘Global Wind Day’, which aims to support the development of wind energy to increase the use of alternative energy sources, especially clean, while reducing CO2 emissions. This is a priority because we have already exceeded, for the first time since life exists, a concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of 400 parts per million, fueling the ‘greenhouse effect and, in the same time, the global warming and the climate change. This is also the goal of the European project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development), which aims to investigate whether in the Adriatic Sea there are weather, environmental, technical and administrative requirements – adequate winds but also logistical conditions and advanced regulations, possibly homogeneous throughout the area – to make possible the harnessing of the energy of the wind, building offshore wind farms.
A choice that, potentially, allow us to reach, in time, percentages of renewable energy even higher than 50%. From this point of view, has already been developed a map of the wind in the Adriatic sea : the map highlights the areas with the highest wind potential. Soon it will start the installation of anemometer towers (along the coast and offshore) that collect sophisticated meteorological data.
The Powered Project – whose partners are public institutions of Italy, Croatia, Albania and Montenegro – is funded by the European Territorial Cooperation Programme IPA Adriatic. Thanks to the Powered Project, and the cooperation of one of its sponsors, Tozzi Nord, two small wind turbines have been placed in the port of Ravenna. The turbines are measuring, experimentally, the potential production of wind energy in an area of moderate wind. It is a useful step along the way of testing the possibility of fueling port activities with renewable energy, transforming the Italian seaports in modern ‘green ports’.
- ‘Powered Project: wind energy in Adriatic sea’, Cervia June 6th, the program
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Exposhow ‘In Aria’ Cervia (Ravenna)
Musa Conference Hall – Magazzini del sale16.15
‘Powered ‘Project’: wind energy in Adriatic sea’
Alberto Rebucci, Responsible Powered Project for the Province of Ravenna
Renato Ricci, professor at the Polytechnic University of Marche.
head of the Scientific Committee for Powered Project‘The Powered Project’
Innocenzo Titone, consultant for Micoperi
‘The outlook for energy: the complementarity of fossil
and renewable resources. The contribution of Powered Project’Sara Gardini, head of anemology sector – Tozzi Group
‘The Powered Project role in the development of Green Port
on the Adriatic coast: the experience of Tozzi Nord
small wind turbines in Ravenna ‘Mara Roncuzzi, Councillor for the Environment – Province of Ravenna
‘Energy policies and environmental protection’
- Powered Project at the event ‘ In Aria’, Cervia, June 6th to 8th
Powered Project will take part in the first edition of exposhow ‘In Aria’, hosted in Cervia and Milano Marittima, June 6th to 8th. The schedule of the event, realized by Cervia Turismo, offers educational workshops, exhibitions, expo, meetings, shows, art.
Powered Project will take part in the event ‘In Aria’ with an exhibition stand – where will be shown and distributed informative material regarding the project – and with two meetings, both hosted at the Musa Conference Hall (Magazzini del sale). The first is ‘Project Powered: wind energy in Adriatic sea’ and is scheduled Friday, June 6th, 4:15 pm. The project will be illustrated by Alberto Rebucci (responsible for Powered for the Province of Ravenna, which is a partner of the project), and Renato Ricci (p rofessor at the Polytechnic University of Marche and head of the scientific committee of Powered.
Successively, Innocenzo Titone, consultant of Micoperi (Micoperi is a company of Ravenna and a project partner), will talk about ‘ The energy outlook : the complementarity of fossil and renewable resources. The contribution of Project Powered’; the head of the anemology sector of Tozzi Group, Sara Gardini, will illustrate the experience of Tozzi Nord in the design and construction of small wind turbines, in connection with the plants built in the Port of Ravenna thanks to Powered. The final speaker will be the Province of Ravenna councillor for Environment Mara Roncuzzi, which will explore the topic of energy choices and environmental protection in the province of Ravenna.
The second meeting, ‘ History, future and economies in using the air’ (organized by the Province of Ravenna), focuses on the issue of climate change and of weather forecast in Emilia –Romagna. The meeting is scheduled Sunday, June 8th-, at the Musa Conference Room, 6:15 pm. The speakers will be Alberto Rebucci, (responsible for Powered-Province of Ravenna), Carlo Cacciamani (Head of Hydro-Meteo-Climate sector. ARPA Emilia Romagna), and Licia Rubbi (Director of ARPA Ravenna).
The European project Powered is funded under the IPA Adriatic Cross-border Programme 2007-2013. Through the development of sophisticated mathematical models and data that will be collected from the network of anemometers that will be built along both coasts of the Adriatic sea, the project aims to assess whether and where there are wind conditions and environmental sustainability to verify the feasibility to build offshore wind farms also in the Adriatic sea. This in order to increase significantly the contribution of renewable energy in the macro-region Adriatic-Ionian of the European Union.
- The thematic study ‘Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’
The thematic study ‘Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’, carried out by an external study of the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme is available on the blog of the National Contact Point (download it here).
The thematic study has been completed March 2014. It examined projects realized by CENTRAL EUROPE Programme in the energy field, highlighting how the transactional Cooperation is supporting the use of sustainable energy and is funding projects that will impact on regional and national policies.
- P.O.W.E.R.E.D Project at REM in Ravenna, March 26th and 27th 2014
The Vicepresidente of Province of Ravenna, Gianni Bessi (on the right) with the staff of the Province of Ravenna
P.O.W.E.R.E.D Project was present with a stand at Rem (Renewable energy mediterranean) the fair that has been hosted in Ravenna on March 26th and 27th: the personnel has welcomed many visitors and distributed information material on the project.
The POWERED Project stand
- REM, the ‘Renewable energy mediterranean’ fair in Ravenna, March 26th-27th
Rem, the ‘Renewable energy mediterranean’ fair and conference on the energy efficiency, will be hosted in Ravenna, at Grand Hotel Mattei, March 26th-27th. Rem gathers the most important players in the energy sector to take stock and discuss the issues of the ‘energy efficiency, in the light of the EU strategy and objectives according with Directive 2012/27.
- The workshop at the Key Energy Fair in Rimini: the press release
The participation of the Project POWERED (Project of Offshore Wind Energy : Research , Experimentation , Development) at Key Energy in Rimini helped to raise the level of knowledge about the potential of wind energy. This is due mainly to the workshop held in the Camelia hall November 6th, entitled ‘Compared scenarios for offshore wind: Northern Europe and the
Mediterranean. The role of the P.O.W.E.R.E.D Project’.
Among the speakers, Siemens Offshore made his first exit as a sponsor of the project: together with Tozzi, Siemens is among the developers of wind turbines that support Powered. Siemens presented its experience as a supplier of wind turbines offshore and linked it with the industrial development of the North Sea and the planning about the diffusion of this technology in the Mediterranean Sea. For its part Tozzi has confirmed that it is possible an intelligent use of wind power also ‘Near Shore’. This is connected to the development of ‘green ports’ (those seaports that use renewable energy for the activities of parking and supporting the ships).
The workshop aimed to illustrate the steps taken by the project, especially with regard to the two technical work packages (WP4 and WP5): with regard to the first, Powered Project has completed the study of wind resources of the Adriatic basin. It produced maps and time series for the period 2008-2012 with a grid spacing of 3 km and 1 km. This result has allowed the identification of wind basins where is possible an immediate exploitation and those best suited for developing future technologies, such as turbines on floating platforms.
WP5 has highlighted the environmental problems that need to be considered in case of investments in offshore wind farms: it’s a sensitive issue, which concerns not only the interaction with the environment, but also the effects that projects such as offshore wind farms have on local communities.
With regard to the future potential of Powered, the most interesting, as it has been stressed during the workshop, is to become a reference and good practice tool for all those projects related to wind energy that will be produced as part of the activities relating the management of the Adriatic-Ionian macro-region.
- Powered Project at Key Energy Fair, press release
A ‘Powered Project’ exhibition stand at the Fair Key Energy
Rimini November 6th to 9th.
On November 6th, the conference ‘Compared scenarios
for offshore wind: Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
The role of P.O.W.E.R.E.D Project ‘
Powered Project (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development), will have a stand at the ‘Key Energy’ Fair, hosted in Rimini 2013 november 6th to 9th. The subject of the Fair this year is ‘A new green deal to Italy’. The location of the stand is the no. 053 – Pavilion D7. Powered project has organized a public event, ‘Compared scenarios for offshore wind: Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. The role of the Project P.O.W.E.R.E.D’, that will be hosted November 6th in Camelia hall (Ist Floor Hall B6 ). The meeting will be chaired by Mara Roncuzzi – the Cancellor of Environment for Province of Ravenna – and by Alberto Rebucci (Supervisor of Production activity and EC Policies for the Province of Ravenna), will begin at 2 pm: after the registration of participants the conference will start with the speeches of Corrado Clini (Director General Ministry of the Environment) , Mara Roncuzzi (Cancellor of Environment for Province of Ravenna) and Mauro Di Dalmazio (Councillor for the environment and energy Abruzzo Region).
The reports will begin at 14.45: Antonio Sorgi – Ercole Cauti (Abruzzo Region), POWERED Lead & Project Manager ‘The project POWERED (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development)’, Lorenzo Facco ( CETMA) ‘Analysis of the ‘state of the art’ regarding to the environmental and energy policies in the Adriatic sea’, Edoardo Prina (Wind Power division Italy) ‘Siemens and Siemens Wind Power – 160 years of innovation and 30 years of service to the wind energy sector’, Kai Gyldenloeve Roetink (Offshore Wind, EMEA) ‘Evolution and new horizons of offshore wind market: technological innovation and drivers to bring down the cost of energy’, Renato Ricci (Marche Polytechnic University) ‘The wind resource of the Adriatic Sea for POWERED Project’, Antonio Pusceddu (Marche Polytechnic University) ‘Environmental sustainability of offshore wind power in the Adriatic Sea’, Enzo Titone (Micoperi Ltd) ‘The POWERED network of meteorologic mast: the transformation of a flare tower in an high quality meteorological station’, Michele Rialti (Tozzi Nord) ‘POWERED Project for the development of a Green Port: The experience of Tozzi Nord’, Daniela Moderini (Team POWERED ) ‘Wind landscapes in the Adriatic Sea’. At the end the program schedules a discussion panel and a debate.
The aim of the European project Powered – funded by the IPA Adriatic Cross-border Programme 2007-2013 – is to check if and where there are wind conditions to invest in large offshore wind farms: thanks to the development of sophisticated mathematical models and data collected from the anemometer network. The data will be ‘certified’ and will provide useful elements to install any wind farm along the Adriatic coast, starting from the major ports.
- Program of the meeting at ‘Key energy Fair’ in Rimini, 2013 november 6th
Key energy – Rimini
2013 November 6thCompared scenarios for offshore wind energy:
Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
The role of the Project P.O.W.E.R.E.D’
Camelia hall, first floor, Pavilion B6
Session Chairman
Mara Roncuzzi (Assessor for the Environment Province of Ravenna)Moderator
Alberto Rebucci (Province of Ravenna )PROGRAM
14:00 Registration of the participants
14:20 Opening of the conference
Corrado Clini (General Director Ministry of Environment), Mara Roncuzzi (Assessor for the Environment Province of Ravenna), Mauro Di Dalmazio (Assessor for environment and energy Region Abruzzo)14:45 ‘The POWERED project (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation , Development)’
Antonio Sorgi – Ercole Cauti (Abruzzo Region) POWERED Lead & Project Manager15:05 ‘Analysis of the ‘state of the art’ regarding to the environmental and energy policies in the Adriatic sea’
Lorenzo Facco (CETMA)15:25 ‘Siemens and Siemens Wind Power – 160 years of innovation and 30 years
of service to the wind energy sector’
Edoardo Prina (Wind Power division, Italy)
‘New horizons of offshore wind market: technological innovation and drivers
to bring down the cost of energy’
Kai Gyldenloeve Roetink (Offshore Wind, EMEA)15:55 ‘The wind resource of the Adriatic Sea for POWERED’ Project
Renato Ricci (University Politecnica delle Marche)16:15 ‘Environmental sustainability of offshore wind power in the Adriatic Sea’
Antonio Pusceddu (University Politecnica delle Marche)16:35 ‘The POWERED network of meteorologic mast: the transformation of a flare tower in an high quality meteorological station’
Enzo Titone (Micoperi Ltd)16:55 ‘ POWERED Project for the development of a Green Port: The experience of Tozzi Nord’
Michele Rialti (Tozzi Nord)17:15 ‘Wind landscapes in the Adriatic Sea’
Daniela Moderini (Team POWERED)17:35 PANEL AND FINAL DISCUSSION
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