• Porto Corsini small wind turbine: one year of data collected

    December 17th 2011 was inaugurated the small wind turbine on the cruise terminal of Porto Corsini in Ravenna. The implementation of the plant – 1.5 KW of power – has been made possible by the collaboration among Province of Ravenna, Port Authority of Ravenna, Ravenna Passenger Terminal and Tozzi Nord (who donated the experimental small wind turbine) and also by a co-financing of the European Project Powered, an Adriatic IPA cross-border program.
    The plant, which is connected to an anemometer, in a year has collected data on the strength of the wind that have been stored on a computer and processed by a software developed by Tozzi Nord (here the whole document file).

     

    Posted on Jan 27.13 to News, Pilot projects   

  • Tirana meeting, January 28th and 29th 2013

    The meeting among the partners of Project Powered will take place in Tirana, at the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy (Skenderbeg square) January 28th and 29th 2013: the meeting aim is to take stock on the project state of the art.
    The most important aspect of the meeting regards the Albanian Ministry of the energy that will report on the status of energy sector in Albany and the strategies to develop alternative energy sources, particularly wind power. The schedule plans the meeting of the Scientific Committee and the Steering Committee, led by the coordinators, Professor Renato Ricci and  Antonio Sorgi, manager of the Energy for the Region Abruzzo, who is also the project manager. Participants will include also the project manager Ercole Cauti.
    The European Project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development) is co-financed by the IPA CBC Adriatic. The goal is to collect scientific data, using sophisticated equipment anemometer and innovative mathematical models, to assess the technical and economic conditions to encourage investment in wind power plants offshore in the Adriatic Sea.
    In the first day of the meeting, at 10 am, after the intervention of the representatives of the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy and the project manager, Antonio Sorgi, the schedule provides an illustration of the Work packages state of the art. In the afternoon, at 3.30 pm, Scientific Committee meeting will take place.
    The next day, the Steering Committee will gather at 9.30 am: the task is rather important because 2013 will be the decisive year of the project. In fact, it will be installed the network of anemometers, it will be improved the physical-mathematical model it and will be elaborated the weather data, that constitute the core of the Project Powered.

    Posted on Jan 25.13 to Events, News   

  • Barack Obama: 47 million dollars for offshore wind power

    One of the first acts of the re-elected president of the United States regards wind energy: the Barack Obama administration, in fact, decided to allocate funding for 7 projects aimed to build offshore wind farms in four major areas of the country (Northwest, Midwest , Gulf of Mexico, East Coast).
    Each project will be funded up to $ 4 million and 3 out of 7 may receive up to $ 47 million. What explains how important this decision is in the direction of a wind energy development is that the United States, regarding the last four years, have more than doubled this kind of energy production, reaching in summer 2012 50 GW of electricity generation and employing more than 75,000 people (here the original article ).

     

    Posted on Dec 13.12 to News   

  • Montenegro meeting: a strong impulse to achieve the Project Powered goals

    On October 30th and 31st was held in Podgorica, Montenegro, the new official meeting among the partners of the European Project Powered (Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development, funded by the Project of cross-border cooperation IPA Adriatic), to make the point on the progress and the steps planned to achieve the goals of the project: to collect, through the use of sophisticated anemometers and innovative mathematical models, scientific data in order to assess the technical and economic conditions to start investments in power plants offshore wind in the Adriatic Sea. The most important news has been announced by Prof. Ricci from Polytechnic University of Marche: after the positive resolution of understandable legal technical difficulties, by the end of November will be released an European call for tenders to identify the specialized subjects that will realize the support towers and the installation of a first block of anemometers on both sides of the ‘Adriatic.
    Project Powered plans to create a network of newly developed anemometers: each apparatus for measuring the strength of the wind will be installed on towers of 45 meters, placed both on the land and in the sea. So it will be possible to detect accurately the real potential of wind in the Adriatic sea and the chance to exploit it to run offshore wind power plants. The data are highly accurate: the big international banks consider them trustworthy to decide on the investments eligibility. The stretch of sea off the coast of Marche is one among the locations to install the anemometers: it will be used an Eni platform, hundred feet high, on which will be built a tower of the same height.
    Antonio Sorgi, the Energy sector general director of Abruzzo Region (Project Powered lead partner), with the collaboration of all partners, carried out a careful analysis about the progress of the project and the individual work packages. Among the elements to be reported, the ‘core’ of the project, the analysis of wind conditions in the Adriatic, has already taken a significant step forward, thanks to the good work of Marche Polytechnic University, led by Professor Renato Ricci. The mathematical model used by the Marche Polytechnic University researchers is very advanced and has a novelty: the model is able to calculate the power of the wind with a detail to a square kilometre. The model is able to provide a very reliable picture of the strength of the wind in Adriatic, which will be further verified by data provided by the Powered anemometers network. Thanks to the model, it has been confirmed the potential of wind in Adriatic grows proceeding from north to south, even if there are considerable variability at the local level.
    To develop wind energy and to pay back the investment in the present conditions of incentive, both of Italy and of the eastern Adriatic countries, it is needed an average wind of at least 7 meters per second at hub height: such conditions, according to the model, are present in some coastal areas of Abruzzo, Molise and Puglia in Italy, and in some parts of Albania, Montenegro and Croatia for the eastern Adriatic countries. Professor Renato Ricci has also ensured that his team is able to increase the accuracy of the mathematical model, on particularly suited areas, reaching a detail up to 200 meters spatial step.
    It would also be possible, when the project will be carried out, to understand in a better way the wind potential in some coastal areas of the project partners, that are potentially interesting to install wind power plants: like the Adriatic ports with suitable characteristics. The aim is to contribute to the gradual transformation of the Adriatic seaports in modern ‘green port’, in which the contribution of renewable energy will grow progressively.
    The meeting also gave a positive account of the progress of the tasks related to the laws of the States and the environmental impact issues: it has been  started an analysis on guidelines to be drawn up for making the offshore development in the growing areas of ‘Adriatic area viable and sustainable.
    The contribution of the partner that hosted the meeting has been very important: the Ministry of Energy of Montenegro representative has shown the growing commitment of his country, which is in pre-accession to the EU, to implement the European Directive 2009/28/CE (so-called ’20 20 20) and, in particular, to strengthen the commitment to develop renewable sources. The strategy of the Balkan country is based on the further development of hydroelectric power (which already represents a significant share of the nation’s energy production), the strong development of solar energy, both thermal and photovoltaic, and exploitation of onshore and offshore wind potential. About it, Montenegro has authorized the construction of two wind farms on Mozura (46 MW) and Krnovo (72 MW) and is working with some European countries, particularly active in the wind energy sector, to carry out a detailed study on the chance to create wind farms in the coastal area of Ulcjni and Bar. Hence the strong interest of Montenegro for Project Powered: to explore scientifically the full potential of exploitation of the wind resource to realize, later, with the help of investors, wind farms (in particular offshore).
    At the end of the meeting, the partners agreed that the next one will take place in late January 2013 in Albania (Tirana), and it will have as main topics the results of European competitive tender to assign the installation of anemometers and how to install them. Partners also agreed to organize, during spring 2013, a succession of conferences on specific topics related to Project Powered: Ravenna (wind power and green port), in Venice (climate change, renewable energy and role of wind energy) and Ancona (physical models and mathematical development of off shore in the Adriatic).

    Posted on Nov 10.12 to News, Press release   

  • Great success for the Project Powered partners meeting in Podgorica

    It was a great success the meeting of Project Powered partners, which took place in Podgorica, Montenegro, October 30th, to make the point about the project ‘state of the art’. The Wp managers illustrated what has been done and what are the next steps. In the same occasion, the Scientific Committee and the Steering Committee gathered to discuss the project topics.
    The next meeting will be hosted in Albania in Tirana, the end of January 2013: in the meantime, the competitive bid to install the anemometers will start in November.

     

    Posted on Nov 04.12 to Events, News   

  • A meeting in Rimini on the offshore wind power in Europe and Italy

    Ecomondo 2012, the International trade fair of material & energy recovery and sustainable development of Rimini, on November 8th will host the conference ‘The potential of off-shore wind power in the scenario of renewable energy in Europe: the ‘Italy case’ (here the program). The meeting aims to analyze the prospects for using offshore wind power as an energy source capable of promoting the economic development.

     

    Posted on Oct 29.12 to News   

  • Project Powered at Brussels Open Days, 10th October 2012

    The ‘Powered Project’ will be illustrated by Antonio Sorgi (Director General for Presidency and European Affairs, Energy and Environmental Assessment – Abruzzo Region, project lead partner) during the debate on ‘Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion: transnational, cross boarder and interregional cooperation actions paving the way ahead’ that will be hosted in Brussels, 10th  October at 9 am, at the espace of Banca Monte Paschi Belgio (Avenue d’Auderghem 22-28 – 1040).
    The event, that is part of the ‘10th European week of Regions and Cities’ – the event hosted in Brussels from 8th October to 11th October 2012 – is organized by Abruzzo Region (as lead-partner) along with ‘Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion’ partners: Republic of Slovenja (SI), Basilicata Region (IT), Dubrovnik – Neretva Region (HR), Emilia Romagna Region (IT), Herzegovina-Neretva Canton  (BH), Marche Region (IT), Molise Region (IT), Nisava, Toplica and Pirot Districts (RS), Puglia Region (IT), Republika Srpska (BH), Sicilia Region (IT), Sumadija-Pomoravlje Districts (RS).
    Two panels have been scheduled after the welcome address and introduction by Ferdinando Nelli Feroci (Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Commission), Maria Damanaki (Member of the European Commission, Responsible for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) and Gianni Chiodi (President of Abruzzo Region). The first will deal with ‘Economic, social and institutional cooperation, network accessibility’, chaired by Pascal Goergen (Secretary General of Assembly of European Regions, AER). The speakers will be Angelo Michele Iorio (President of Adriatic Euroregion and President of Molise Region), Patrizia Mainardi (Managing Authority Erdf Op 2007/2013 –Basilicata Region), Nikola Dubroslavic (President Dubrovnik-Neretva Region), Jasminka Lukovic Jaglicic (Director of Sumadija and Pomoravlje regional economic development agency), Zoran Perisic (Mayor of the city of Nis), Slobodan Markovic (Director of Republika Srpska development agency for Smes).
    Second Panel will deal with ‘Energy and network accessibility, natural resources and risk prevention’, chaired by José Palma Andres (DG Regio, Director for European Transnational, cross border and Interregional Cooperation).
    The speakers will be Antonio Sorgi (Director General for Presidency and European Affairs, Energy and Environmental Assessment – Abruzzo Region), Silvia Godelli (Regional Minister for Tourism, Culture and Mediterranean Affairs – Puglia Region),  Pietro Tolomeo (Director General Sicily Region), Enrico Cocchi (Director General Emilia Romagna Region), Gian Mario Spacca (President of Marche Region), Radomis Matczak (Director Pomorskie Voivodeship).
    Four  key notes have been scheduled: the speakers will be Francois Alfonsi (Member of European Parliament), Igor Sencar (State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Slovenja), Dimitris Kourkoulas (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Grecee), Josko Klisovic (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Croatia).
    Final note and conclusions by Marta Dassù (State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Italy).

    Posted on Sep 30.12 to News, 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