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Tuscany will become an open-air laboratory for testing important to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

Capraia (150 residents and 300 residents) will be the first Italian island with zero emissions. A stone's throw from the coast of Livorno, the program was chosen for its green islands morphological and environmental conditions. Through

plants solar and use of biodiesel plant, the island will be totally independent from an energy standpoint. The diesel will be replaced by solar, wind and sea currents obtained.

The project will meet all the electrical needs of the island in summer, when the population reaches 2,000 people. This will avoid the equivalent of 2,200 tonnes of CO2 a year.

It is also thought to enter the island only hydrogen cars. The Green Islands project also addresses the problem of water supply, another critical issue for the Islands. With poly-generation, according to Gennaro De Michele, Enel's research director, you can meet the needs of both water and hydrogen: the waste heat resulting from power generation systems can be used to desalinate sea water, and the electricity generated will be used to produce hydrogen for local transport .
All part of a program on renewable energies, Enel intends to invest € 4 billion by 2001. The treatments involved, inter alia, and probably other Aeolian islands tuscan Giannutri and Montecristo.

looking to the future also the Italian Navy.
The Naval Academy has signed an agreement last October with Enel for a feasibility study (ending in spring) on \u200b\u200bthe production of energy from renewable sources and the so-called smart electricity networks, smart grids. "
Title of the project is intact Smart Village. This island-citadel, which has about 2 000 inhabitants among cadets, teachers and civilian personnel, will have a system that can integrate with the conventional power supply from sources such as wind and solar.
will also experience the new concept of wind power to reduce the environmental impact: not more but the big propeller vertical tubes with paddles. But wind and solar will not be able to provide all the needed energy to a structure which absorbs 750 kW and annual consumption of 10 gigaW.
is therefore made for the installation of a trigeneration system powered by natural gas, solar (which in turn will fuel an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen) and fuel cells. The latter with the task of placing power in the circuit only when necessary.

Source: Panorama