• Powered at Verona ‘Smart energy expo’

    Is it profitable to build wind farms offshore in the Adriatic sea for producing green energy? What are the socio- economic and environmental impacts from installation of hundreds of dozens of meters high turbines on the open sea? How much “green” energy could be produced with this system and at what cost? The european cross-border Project Powered tries to answer to these questions: it aims to analyze, from a scientific point of view, the advantage (or not) to exploit in the future the strength of the wind blowing along the Adriatic Sea, from Trieste to Puglia, from Croatian islands to Albania.
    Veneto Agriculture has promoted today at the Smart Energy Expo of Verona a conference on this important topic: the event is useful to take stock of the progress of the project. It’s important to stress that the initiative doesn’t aim to build a wind farm in the Adriatic, but to understand – through the development of a scientific study – if in the future it will be profitable to carry it out. There are many expectations on the results that Powered will provide, because part of the countries bordering on the Adriatic have a huge need for clean energy, and also because there are concerns on the potential environmental impacts of a new “thing” like an offshore wind farm. There are several subjects involved in the project: Abruzzo Region (leading partner) , the Marche, Puglia and Molise Regions, the Province of Ravenna , the Ministry of Environment of Italy, the Politecnica University of Marche, the Cetma group, the Micoperi Marine Contractors Ltd, and Veneto Agriculture. For Croatia, the City of Komiza, for Montenegro the Ministry of Economy (Department of Energy), for Albania the Ministry of Economy Trade and Energy.
    In recent years the wind energy realized in land in Italy has increased considerably (it is the 5 % of the total energy produced), whilst the offshore one didn’t increase much. The exploitation of offshore wind energy, on the contrary, has increased especially in the northern Europe seas, where they build 1,5 turbines per day. England and Denmark are the countries that most invest in the construction of these offshore wind farms; but also Germany, Spain and France are following the same path.
    Project Powered therefore represents a strategic starting point for evaluating if the winds of Adriatic sea can be exploited to produce green energy. The project, in its complexity, also includes the installation of a series of anemometer towers to test the wind potential in each of the areas: a large amount of data will be collected and conveyed to a public network. The supply, installation, maintenance and disposal at end of cycle of the network will be managed by the Polytechnic University of Marche, scientific coordinator of the project. The final results of the study will be essential to evaluate cost-benefit and interactions between wind farms, marine environment and human activities. Veneto Agriculture has verified the ability to install one of the towers in its farm ValleVecchia in Caorle (VE) (the authorization request is pending). Veneto Agriculture will be involved in particular in the deepening of the impact of structures on marine and coastal economic activities linked to the Adriatic Sea , with special reference to fishing, and mitigation works / environmental opportunities associated with these great works.

    Posted on Oct 11.13 to News   

  • Powered Project at the ‘Smart energy expo’ in Verona, October 11th

    ‘A Socio-Environmental approach to off-shore wind parks planning. IPA Adriatic POWERED Project contribution to best practices, impacts mitigation and environmental analysis’ is the title of the conference that will be hosted october 11th at the event ‘Smart energy expo’ (Puccini Hall, Congress Center Arena, pad 6/7, Verona october 9th – october 11th, web site).

    Here’s the program of the conference:

    10.00 Registration and welcome coffee

    10.30 Authorities welcome speeches

    10.40 ‘Powered project presentation’: Ercole Cauti, Project manager Powered Project

    10.50 The ‘Powered’ Project: a new step to knowledge toward off-shore wind power scenarios in Adriatic Sea Basin’ Renato Ricci, Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences – Marche Polytechnic University

    11.10 ‘Environmental aspects in establishing Wind Energy networks in off-shore conditions. A multi-functional approach’. Antonio Pusceddu, Marche Polytechnic University

    11.30 ‘Planning mitigation in Off-Shore Wind Farm establishment. Impacts on biological resources and fisheries in the Adriatic Sea environmental context’ Otello Giovanardi, Veneto Agricoltura Consultant

    11.50 ‘A positive experience from Great Britain and Northern Europe: Best Practices in off-shore wind parks environmental impact analysis’. Adrian Judd, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS)’

    12.50 ‘Wind Power in Italy and environmental debate, from NIMBY to BANANA syndrome?’ Edoardo Zanchini, Legambiente Italia

    13.20 Conclusions Antonio Sorgi, Director for Energy Department – Abruzzo Region Project Powered Lead Partner

    Posted on Oct 07.13 to Events   

  • September 28th a bike ride to visit the small wind turbines of Porto Corsini

    Saturday September 28th 2013 is the day for the campaign ‘Clean up the World 2013’. Many initiatives have been scheduled: in Ravenna will take place ‘Wind turbines’, a bike ride from the center to Porto Corsini organized by the Province of Ravenna, the FIAB  and Legambiente. In Porto Corsini the technicians of the Tozzi Company  will conduct a guided tour of the two new small wind installed ​​thanks to Project Powered.
    The bike ride – about 30 kilometers long (round trip) – will start at 9 am in front of the Province of Ravenna – which is one of Project Powered  partners – then will continue to the train station, where there will be another gathering point (9.10 am). From the station the ride will proceed along the bike path to Punta Marina, passing through the Pinewood so to arrive to Marina di Ravenna, where the harbor channel will be crossed by ferry to arrive at Porto Corsini (the cost of the ferry ticket is 1 euro). In Porto Corsini is scheduled the tour of the two small wind turbines that contribute to ‘keep the world clean’. The ride will return to Ravenna around 1 pm. Info and registration: amicidellabici.mlr @ gmail.com. During the ride, as is usual for Legambiente campaign, the participants will be asked to remove the waste they will find along the way (plastic bottles, cans, paper …).

    Posted on Sep 23.13 to Events   

  • November 6th-9th, Powered at the Wind Key in Rimini

    The Project Powered will be present with an exhibition stand at Key Wind, the section dedicated to wind energy of Key Energy, the event hosted in Rimini from November 6th to November 9th. November 6th is scheduled a meeting on topics related to the Project Powered and, in general, the wind energy.

    Posted on Sep 03.13 to News   

  • The small wind turbine of Porto Corsini works at full capacity

    After a short period in which has been made the connection with ENEL, the small wind turbine installed on the north Foto pala eolica Diga foranea nord Porto Corsini 3breakwater of Porto Corsini, started up June  28th, reached the full functionality. The small wind turbine realized by Tozzi Nord was installed by the Province of Ravenna, in cooperation with the Port Authority of Ravenna and thanks to Project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation and Development). The small wind turbine model TN535 provides 10 kw of power: it  is expected to produce about 20,000 kwh per year, helping to offset (at least partially) with renewable and clean energy, the energy consumption of the Cruise Terminal. The installation of the system is a confirmation of the importance of the Project Powered: in addition to providing data on the strength of the wind and weather, to understand whether and where to build large offshore wind farms in the Adriatic area, the project makes possible the conditions for exploiting the wind strength even in areas, along the Adriatic coast and nearshore, particularly in ports, where the wind power is not intense, but where development costs are considerably lower than for the largest offshore wind farms. In this direction, the installation of the small wind turbine, which is purely experimental, is a first step in the direction of an important goal like the green port.

    Foto pala eolica Diga foranea nord Porto Corsini 1

    Posted on Jul 15.13 to Press release   

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Lead partner Abruzzo Region Directorate for Bureau Affairs, Legislative and EC Policies, External Affairs Department for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Sector, Ministry of Economy of Montenegro Veneto Agricoltura, regional agency for agriculture, forestry and agri-food sectors

Province of Ravenna		 Marche Region Environment and Landscape Department

Molise Region Programming Department		 Apulia Region Mediterranean Department

Marche Polytechnic University		 CETMA Consortium Engineering, Design and Materials Center Micoperi marine contractors srl

Italian Ministry for Environment and Land and Sea		 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy, Republic of Albania

Municipality of Komiza		 European Union Adriatic IPA