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Energy, counteract the price shock and become sustainable. The challenge for efficiency.

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Energy, counteract the price shock and become sustainable.  The challenge for efficiency.

Only five months ago Alok Sharma, president of COP26, concluded the Glasgow summit assuring that he saw the end of the coal age. The global energy picture has now changed dramatically as Europe is in direct conflict with its largest natural gas supplier. The West, however, was already grappling with an energy crisis due to strong demand for post-pandemic economic recovery needs.

Already at the end of January 2022, Goldman Sachs had warned about high energy prices, a trend destined to remain high at least until 2025. Even before the war, econometric estimates were in agreement in signaling the significant impact on the competitiveness of European companies caused by the share of the cost of electricity, gas, steam, hot water. Furthermore, the invasion of Ukraine is forcing global players to free themselves from dependence on Russian gas and oil, to recalibrate the deadlines for the ecological transition and to reconsider the renunciation of fossil fuels.

What strategies can companies adopt to face the emergency? In the last two decades, there has been considerable progress in the implementation of energy efficiency, both as a response to the price shock and as part of the sustainable strategies pursued by public and private entities.
Energy efficiency is something more than simple energy saving: it is the ability to combine conscious and responsible techniques and behaviors for the rational use of energy, reducing waste in the management and operation of plants.
An objective that was relaunched by Mission 2 of the PNRR, which aims to develop competitive supply chains in Italy in the fastest growing sectors, with the aim of reducing dependence on imported technologies, strengthening research in the most innovative areas as well as promoting energy efficiency also by increasing the level of efficiency of buildings. All this, combined with various incentive mechanisms of the MISE (tax deductions, 2.0 thermal account, white certificates) and national and regional tenders made available to companies.

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In this context, collaborations useful for identifying innovative technological and contractual solutions that are up to the challenge are decisive at all levels (public administration, businesses, condominiums, non-profit and welfare organizations).
Iren Smart Solutions’ turnkey service is positioned in this logic.

Strengthened by the know-how of the Iren Group, the Company offers integrated solutions for energy efficiency and full-service management of technological systems, proposing – also through customized contractual and economic solutions – products and services capable of generating concrete economic and energetic.
Energy efficiency solutions can be many: from the construction of generation plants from renewable sources, to cogeneration or trigeneration, implementation of energy monitoring systems and intelligent management of the building-plant system, in combination, if required, with the “global service” technological; without forgetting the building redevelopment intended to increase the efficiency of the opaque and transparent building envelope. In all cases, Iren Smart Solutions supports the Customer during each phase of the process: from energy consultancy to the design and implementation of interventions, also providing for the possibility of managing redeveloped systems and / or monitoring consumption and identifying tailor-made solutions. based on the needs of the customer.

There are many companies that, by virtue of the partnership with Iren Smart Solutions, have concretized their environmental commitment and found an answer to the need to reduce energy costs by identifying the best efficiency solutions and carrying out the necessary interventions, also accessing the incentives available. Among these Imprima Group, a world player in textile printing, which is becoming ESG Compliant (Environmental, Social and Governance): the many and far-sighted interventions carried out by the company include the replacement of lighting fixtures with LED devices, the installation of photovoltaic roofs, the installation of a high-efficiency cogeneration plant (CAR) and condensing boilers for the production of process steam, the installation of remote control systems of the plants for energy purposes.
Another virtuous example comes from Sipcam Oxon SpA, a leading company in the chemical sector for agriculture, rooted in Lombardy, which has built a photovoltaic system of over 1 MW, thus freeing itself from the purchase of electricity from the grid for a part certainly not marginal in its energy consumption.
And again Silfas Srl, a historic Piedmontese metal stamping company, a notoriously energy-intensive sector, has also installed a photovoltaic system with about 500 kW of peak power, seizing the opportunity to further secure itself at an environmental level through the contextual removal of asbestos from roofing.
And to conclude, the Reggio Emilia Chamber of Commerce, with the incentives of the Emilia-Romagna Region for the redevelopment of public buildings, wanted to make a contribution to energy saving, through the installation of a photovoltaic system and the replacement of over 800 lighting fixtures with LED lamps and presence sensors.
It therefore appears clear, and there are many similar virtuous examples in our country, that investing in energy efficiency today more than ever means investing in one’s future.

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