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SE Fortnightly on Energy Consulting and Professional Information Edited by Progema srl via De Amicis 2 21020 Varano Borghi VA DIRECTOR Lorenzo Lo Vecchio Phone: +39 0332 948.948 (operation office) - +39 02 9374175 (secretary) - fax +39 02 700537124 Email: se@progemaenergia.it - web: www.progemaled.it - www.impiantipannellisolari.eu Newstand: www.progemaenergia.it/se Electronic distribution – 17,600 – 1st year – Number 1

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in this edition SE 6 EDITORIAL 7 CHINA CALLS ITALY - ITALY CALLS CHINA 10 HOW A SMALL PROJECT CAN TURN INTO SOMETHING HUGE: THE URUMqI CASE 11 STARTUP COMPANIES - THE HYPOTHETICAL PRODUCTION VALUE 12 THE STRATEGIES AFTER THE ENERGY ACCOUNT 14 THERMAL ENERGY ACCOUNT - FROM 2 TO 5 YEARS OF INCENTIVES 19 FROM SWITZERLAND NEW TRUST IN PV 23 SOUTH AFRICA - PHOTOVOLTAIC GREATNESS 25 JAPAN - ENERGY ACCOUNT AT THEIR BEST 26 EUROPE’S UNION WITH WOOD 27 INNOVATIVE POWEWR PLANTS - HOW TO ACCESS THE INCENTIVES RATES 30 PHOTOVOLTAICS AND HEAT PUMPS 32 HEAT PUMPS: STANGERS TO US 40 LED LIGHTS - A NEW FRONTIER OF ENERGY SAVING 43 THE CASE OF A MALL 44 SMART MUNICIPALITIES THANKS TO LED 46 TURIN SMART CITY 46 FROM ASIA 51 SE PRICES LISTS

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L A I R O T EDI Dear operators, professionals, businesses, and public entities, in the month of November we published edition zero of SE online, with the provisional title, CE. e necessity for this publication was made clear in the last years of work in various sectors of new technologies, in order to expand our markets past of Italy’s borders, discovering the best opportunities and offers from governments of other countries, similar to the necessity to open the doors of our country to collaboration with foreign experiences and businesses, interested in opening a passage in Europe and the Mediterranean, taking advantage of Italy’s receptive capacities and of the geographic position of our peninsula, which is particularly strategic and sensitive to developments from abroad.

Between November and this first edition of December we have met and confronted entrepreneurs of North America, Latin America, Japan, the Emirates, Germany, and China, in addition, obviously, to other Italian entrepreneurs. SE is here whenever a need for rapid, persistent, low cost communication reveals itself, in order to reach foreign businesses and operators, presenting new investments in Italy and also, in order to reach Italian businesses and professionals, offering ideas for reflection and stimulus for development and the realization of projects outside of our borders.

SE has therefore chosen to utilize the internet, both for its ability to reach every part of the world in a matter of seconds, and for its reduced editorial expenditure due to its lack of printing and distribution costs.

Needing to reach various regions of the world, although coming from Italy, SE comes in two versions, Italian and English. In Italian, because the well-being of our companies depends necessarily on our own territory and on the exchange between provinces, and between cities. In English because communication with other countries, but also from other countries to Italy, must assume a character of understanding that renders it useful to all involved.

In this newspaper, however, some articles will come only in an English version in cases where the material comes from abroad, which implies the knowledge of a

language which will successively be used in order to perform transactions and partnerships of reciprocal interests.

Who are the readers of SE? Our newspaper, whose title is duly registered at the competent court, as it appears in our data, can be consulted online and its publication address is sent every 15 days to all those who request it explicitly. In particular, our readers are businesses in the field of highly advanced technologies for construction, energy, environment, design and maintenance relative to preexisting operative branches.

In addition, SE is progressively being sent to academic figures and to figures of the field of technology research, as well as to the technical offices of public bodies, starting with city halls. Taking off with 16,000 operators, we plan to double the number of readers within the first five months of publication. Moreover, subscription to SE is completely free and anyone can make SE aware of new operators who would be interested in receiving our newspaper.

All past editions of SE will remain published online, in addition to the most recent release.

SE is made up of paid editorial parts and sections of pure information. ese two parts are not mutually exclusive and can sometimes both be found together, without any conflict of objectivity.

Obviously, for professional ethics and for respect for the reader, the paid editorial parts will be pointed out as such. e communication often requires the assistance of advertising vehicles, which manifest themselves in the standard form of advertisements or in the form of journalistic articles.

We request that everyone promote the spread of SE, with the goal that our national and international project can always accommodate more interesting indications and possibilities for exchange, becoming an instrument for work even more than just an instrument of communication.

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ITALY CALLS CHINA CHINA CALLS ITALY THE SIXTH SIEE WAS HELD IN NAPLES WITH THE ATTENDANCE OF MININSTER PROFUMO AND OF MAYOR DE MAGISTRIS. FROM THE HIGH GOVERNING AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC - THIS IS HOW TO START COOPERATIONS BETWEEN BUSINESSES AND MUNICIPALITIES OF THE TWO CONTRIES At the end of this November the sixth SIEE was held in Naples, Sino-Italia Exchange Event, attended by political as well as business delegations from the two countries.

The event was inaugurated in the presence of Minister Francesco Profumo and of the Chinese Ambassador Ding Weng, authorized presences among which were the Neopolitan Mayor Luigi De Magistris, the Vice Mayor of Beijing Chen Gang and business personalities of the two countries.

More than 600 people registered for the event, among them entrepreneurs, researchers and scientists, 200 of which were entrepreneurial representatives of Chinese institutions.

Four Chinese provinces sent business delegations, including the municipalities of Beijing, Szechuan, Henan and Tianjin.

For Italy, in addition to MIUR and the Foreign Minister, system innovators of three regions were present: Campania, Tuscany, and Piedmont. Among the Italian promoters, as well as the Idis Foundation—City of Science, the

largest Italian research centers were in attendance: CNR and ENEA, ICE, Invitalia, GSE and the network. Over the course of the workshop, which lasted two days, more than 300 b2b meetings were scheduled between Chinese and Italian companies and presenters of investment opportunities in China.

In particular, Antonio Laspina, responsible for the Italian Office of the Institute for Foreign Commerce in Beijing emphasized that Italian technologies are the most popular technologies in China, where a recent survey revealed that among the ten most popular brands in that country, six are Italian.

China offers, more today than ever before, a myriad of work opportunities for our businesses. We are right on time.

This is the time to ride the opportunities, because the most difficult part has already been confronted by those who preceded us, whereas now opportunities are opening up to join existing projects that are quickly developing.

In Beijing, with the collaboration of the ICE, which is headed by the Italian Foreign Minister and by the International Business Incubator, promoted by the Chinese Government, there are already hundreds of projects in progress, which present the opportunity to join in a business growth prospective, due also to the individual project or to the presentation of new programming ideas. The Sino-Italian agreements and the trust enjoyed over the years between the economic and political authorities of the respective countries, put our

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SE 8 SE businesses in the ideal conditions to find new outlets in eastern markets, including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

On the other hand, the Chinese value the applicability of proposals, including with regards to the most convenient provincial destination.

In the case of Uruqi, which will be discussed in other parts of SE, it is particularly emblematic when one considers that the European-Chinese center for clean energy in Turin presented itself to the authorities of Beijing with a design dedicated to a neighborhood of the city that was instead di-

In this direction SE intends to play its own part, both at the informative level and in spurring the reaching of new development objectives.

Obviously the Italian-Chinese axis is multidirectional, because the same difficulties are met by Chinese companies that want to enter into the Italian market.

Since the times of the first commerce by sea, Italy has been a crossroads for exchanges between peoples. The maritime republics and the Po Valley, followed by Milan, were all centers of attention for all those who conquered the Mediterranean, Balkan

verted to a province in the north of China, for the creation of a smart city in a “small” city of thirty-million inhabitants, Urumqi, which rapidly transformed from an agricultural zone into a residential and industrial center. The difficulty that Italian companies encounter, however, is that of keeping themselves informed about a world that is still evolving and that is available to them, even though competition makes China very selective. In our view, however, there are Italian professionals that are not intimidated by the competition of anyone, and who fear, if anything, a certain timidity in international rapports, above all when talking about small and medium-sized companies, who are esteemed beyond our borders as well.

and Central European markets. To establish oneself in Italy also means to create a bridge to 800 million potential new users and clients.

The Chinese need to make themselves known in our country, above all those companies that want to present themselves, with their high professionalism (it is not true that a better-priced Chinese product is necessarily of worse quality), but they lack the instruments necessary to do so. The Chinese also need to implement their resources of technical knowledge with the help of the experiences of other countries. In this sense, I point out two particularly emblematic examples: The Beijing Beizhong Steam Turbine Generator Co., Ltd and the Nceprz.

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The first example regards a Beijing company that builds industrial turbines for electricity generation. The second regards, on the other hand, a public business which builds large electric power pants. In the first case it seems difficult to reach our market and to initiate collaborations with our country, which is capable of commercializing the product on other markets. In the second case there is a search for new technologies to improve and optimize the design of large electric power plants in China or those in the design phase. Whoever is interested may come forward. SE is at your disposition to facilitate meetings and developments.

Thinking that you are too late is actually a mistake which does not take into account that, in this case, the time that has passed has made the ground even more fertile on which to move and to look for new commercial stimulus. It is a concept that has been expressed previously, but is still worth repeating, because it is in SE’s network that this connection has presented itself, like a bridge, in a moment in which the economy stagnates and there is a necessity for new vitality and new frontiers. Given the events of the SIEE it appears more indicative than ever before: more than 300 meetings (B2B and work tables) organized with the objective of individuating interlocutors with whom to stipulate

technological and commercial collaboration agreements. The subjects at center stage during this event were smart cities, green chemicals, remote sensing, e-health, energy, and biotech.

To focus on the cooperation and the internationalization of these enterprises seems essential for Italy, as Minister Profumo emphasized, above all in a new age when it is an absolute necessity to return to the real economy. In conclusion of the inaugural event, Minister Profumo made an appointment with the Italian and Chinese partners next autumn in Beijing. SE intends

to follow this as well, offering information from primary sources to Italian and Chinese operators, where new exchange opportunities present themselves. China, strongly dependent on foreign countries with regards to supplies, solicits experience and designs, but also requests that we open the doors of our market to its companies, not in order to outperform Italian competition, but appearing alongside our entrepreneurs, at times also supporting them with new investments and initiatives.

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HOW A SMALL PROJECT CAN TURN INTO SOMETHING HUGE anks to a Chinese incubator, an idea for a smart city for a neighborhood in Beijing was transferred to a city of thirty million inhabitants A group of engineers from Turin are the protagonists It seems like a fable but it’s completely pure reality.

Turin Polytecnics, together with the partners of the Europe-China Clean Energy Centre (EC2), had presented a Smart City design to the authority of Beijing to be applied to a neighborhood in China’s capital, as an example of a Smart City and an experiment. In the proponents’ plan, once the project was accepted and its feasibility was verified, the design could be extended gradually to other Beijing neighborhoods as well. But this did not become a reality. Our masterminds were called for in China and they were asked to accept their insertion in an incubator, a sort of internal technical organism, which starting from the initial design was able to develop an original idea, inserting itself alongside other organizations and partners, to develop the design and make it concretely active in the territory.

In this way the Tsingua University, the Commission for the Development of Urumqi (pronounced ooroom-jee) and the Xinjiang Xin Zi Consulting Engineer appeared on the scene to launch a large scale initiative, aimed in paticular at the city of Urumqi, a residential center in the far north, which accommodates thirty million inhabitants and is following a path of rapid development, a very familiar path to the Chinese, from a purely agricultural center to a technological and industrial one. In short, an instance of cooperation between Europe and China commenced felicitously and it is still looking for partners in the fields of energy savings and reduction of greenhouse gases.

The key words for what is happening in Urumqi are eco-sustainability of new buildings (both in terms of energy and in terms of feasibility of urban energy services), the systems of cogeneration for which China is eager, water conservation and recycling, low temperature heating, energy savings in general, and renewable resources. On each of these subjects there are some

roles that have already been assigned as well as others that have yet to be assigned. Therefore the road is clear for those who hope to enter fully into the project. This includes new researchers, designers, planners, experimenters, in addition to those who are deputed to play a solely political role. This last point also regards the distribution of financial resources directly from the government of the People’s Republic, which would then be transferred to the enterprises according to current procedures of local administration.

Urumqi is the capital of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, in the northwest of China. It is the political, economic and cultural center of the province, the point of convergence between Asia, Europe and an important point of access to western China It is the principle junction for the manufacturing sector in the province Xinjing, with particular attention to petrochemicals, energy innovation, machinery production, furniture production, to the sector of foodstuffs, modern pharmacology, construction, textiles, and the metallurgic industry.

In 2011, the PIL reached 170 billion CNY, with an increase of 17.1%, equivalent to the 25.7% of the PIL of the whole province of Xinjiang Il the first trimester of 2012 the PIL reached 36 billion CNY, with an increase of 11.2% for the same period. As a result of this rapid growth, Urumqi adopted a standard for energy savings of buildings that spread over 54 million square meters, while further construction is planned for an area of ten million square meters.

In short, the door is open also to Italian companies that are capable of contributing their work experience.

To write to SE: send an email to se@progemaenergia.it

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credit transfer and leasing of facilities

THE HYPOTHETICAL PRODUCTION VALUE Another “healthy” way for further litigation without absolute regulations

With resolution n. 95/E of October 17, 2012, the Revenue Agency provided clarifications to answer a question posed by a company that produces electric energy from renewable sources, about the application of the registration tax for the act of a guaranteed GSE credit transfer at the moment of the registration of the transfer.

While it was building a photovoltaic field “on the ground” the company made an agreement with the Manager of Energy Services (GSE) for the recognition of higher incentivizing rates, due to the production of the electric energy derived from the same facility. Moreover, the same company sold the photovoltaic plant to a leasing company, while it was creating a leasing contract that would last for 18 years.

To guarantee the payment of the rental income of the lease contract, the company was simultaneously working on selling itself to the leasing company, through a public act or an authentic private written agreement, the credits constituted by the incentivizing rates provided by the GSE. The amount of these credits—calculated by multi-

plying the monthly quantity of energy produced by the rate recognized by the manager of the facility—is not determined at the moment of the registration of the act. Moreover, the quantity of energy produced varies depending on the productivity of the photovoltaic facility.

In order to proceed with the signing of the contract, the company requested to know what the tax treat-

ment would be, for the purposes of the register, in the sales contract, the guarantee of the credits garnished from relations with the GSE. In response to this inquiry, the Revenue Agency clarified that the sale contract of the credits garnished from relations with the GSE, stipulated with a public act or a private, authentic, written document guaranteed by the payment of fees derived from a leasing contract, is subject to a proportional registration tax, at the rate of 0.50%, to be calculated based on the “value of declared credits” on the presumptive side, except adjustment or reimbursement after the definitive determination of their amount.

SE’s comment on this event, that we bring to you through Casa Clima, is that essentially the responsibi-

lity of acceptable behavior remains that of the Responsible Entity, who must evaluate, according to its own logic, how much the production of its facility could be, with the aim of a correct payment of the Registration Tax. We note that this is an example of the usual mess created by vague laws that are not well-defined, which can give rise to disputes with the Revenue Agency and to subsequent appeals on the parts of the Responsible Entities.

We emphasize that the lack of well-defined regulations is one of the principle causes of discouragement of foreign investments in our country, although for a speculative effect (in the case of photovoltaic fields) the funds of German, English, and French investments, have indeed invested in the most recent years. But that’s another story, which regards the drawing up of the precedents of energy accounts, which have caused millions of incentives to flow abroad, charged on the bills of Italians.

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strategies after the energy account - UTILIZING ALL SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY SAVINGS CHANGING ENERGY USE HABITS - PROVING THE CONVENIENCE OF FISCAL DEDUCTIONS

COSTUMER RELATIONS

You can feel it in the air, but also in every meeting between companies in the field, at the fairs: among operators in the field there is general sense of discouragement, a bit like in all sectors. In the field of renewable energy, primarily photovoltaic, the discouragement, however, is more significant for various reasons, which have come together at the critical moment for the Italian economy as well as other economies.

The Fifth Energy Account, in fact, has considerably cut the incentives and the length of the application.

The most pessimistic predictions indicate the possibility to build new facilities after about six months.

Sincerely, SE is not discouraged because there is still

emerged from a recent workshop, organized by VPSOLAR, from which emerged a punctual analysis of the market and the consequent strategies which, as noted

by SE are necessary for a common culture, which is the base of future development in this sector. As we wait for the decrees to restart the national economy to be approved by the Parliament, our reflections are first dedicated to the following: -opportunities for retrofitting (adjustment) of the already existent facilities -possibilities to create new storage systems (accumulation) of the energy produced -contributions to the fiscal deductions of 50% that are

much to do, in the sector of the direct access facilities, in that of facilities built with innovative technologies, as well as in the field of concentrated facilities. Nevertheless we would like to align ourselves with whomever sees a darker future than we do. Therefore, we will reason about new sales strategies in the photovoltaic sector and about new opportunities that the market offers us to continue our business, even if we do not receive the same returns as we did a few years ago.

On that subject, we report on various indications that

already possible now, giving up the Energy Account In the case of retrofitting the most opportune path is that of proposing to the client a thermal system that has the ability to profit from the maximum productive capacity of the solar panels. The insertion of the heat pumps, which are now available in a wide range of products, is a course that many are already following with positive results, above all since the recent cost increase of methane, and consequently of heating.

It is, in fact, strategically necessary to inform the client

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THERMAL STORAGE EXEMPLES of all the possibilities with which the photovoltaic can guarantee a significant savings on energy costs. Sometimes it is also necessary to modify consumption habits, concentrating them in the hours that energy is produced, even by use of timers that start the washing machine, dryer, and various appliances (possibly including rechargers of electric vacuum cleaners, cell phones, and anything else) in the hours of full daylight, contrary to what has always been advised until now in order to avoid disturbing electric bills.

In the case of new storage systems, considering the high costs of batteries for energy accumulation, a good strategy is that of storing energy for thermal use, such as hot water and heating. This is one ,ajor breakthrough, which we emphasize below in a basic diagram. Today storage tanks exist that lose only 5% of the energy’s initial heat in the first 24 hours. The costs are low in comparison with chemical storage (batteries) and they provide the possibility to modify the hydraulic facility, if necessary. The interaction of these systems with that of the heat pumps offers a vast range of sales opportunities and for products that facilitate the work of professionals of the sector.

Lastly, in the case of fiscal deductions, a recent study of qualenergia,it demonstrated that for facilities above 20 kwp the deduction is much more convenient than the Energy Account itself, moreover, renouncing the Energy account it is still possible to continue to utilize the exchange system in place, as happened in the Fourth Account. Infact, since June 2012 and until June 30, 2012 the fiscal deductions for the restructuration of buildings (not to be confused with those of 55% energy efficiency) have been brought from 36 to 50%.

For a rather extended span of construction works and to benefit only physical persons there is a 50% Irpef deduction on the maximum spending limit of 96,000 euros per housing unit, spread over 10 years in homogeneous rates.

There a many advantages to the fiscal deduction. There is the certainty of the economic benefit since it is the client himself that deducts the portion each year. There is the possibility to include other labor in the amount (e.g. on the facilities and on LED light) There is liberal use of certification constraints. It is not necessary to register power plants >12kWp. One saves on the costs of the GSE. The responsibility of reaching the incentive lightens. In short, refusing the Energy Account in favor of the deductions seems to be an excellent idea given that in 25 years one is likely to earn almost 30 thousand euros more in this way. We need to start talking about this with the clients.

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SE 14 SE A NEW ENERGY ACCOUNT FOR THERMAL ENERGY STARTING IN 2013

from two to five years of incentives THE ACTION TARGETED AT INDIVIDUALS, COMPANIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS

The activation of the Energy Account for thermal energy will begin shortly, the new Decree on thermal renewable energy, precisely, which could already take off with the beginning of the new year. This is big news, particularly for the public sector, which until now was excluded from 55% of the incentives, can now access incentives for the new account, intervening on a whole series of old buildings scattered over the territory. Also individuals, however, will have many new options, being able for the first time to choose whether to use the deduction of 55% or instead turn to new aid provided by the thermal Energy Account.

The decree provides for the promotion of small energy efficiency operations and for the production of thermal energy from renewable sources (heat pumps, water heaters, solar, thermal, and biomass heat generators).

Access to support for renewable heat will be allowed to the public, including for the first time the IACP (Autonomous Institute of Social Housing) as well as private institutions, and--in the current version of the decree—those operations for energy efficiency are only for the public.

Until today, actually, individuals are entitled to the tax relief discussed above: the composition of the two measures in the organic design represents one of the major nodes that are dissolving.

In the first two years of application a maximum total cost of 900 ml/Euro is predicted, which will be a covered by taxes on natural gas.

For all of the technologies included in the incentive, the new decree establishes a series of minimum performance values. In particular, the incentive results proportionate to the renewable energy produced and to the energy savings achieved and will be differentiated for cuts and climactic zones.

For biomass facilities up to 35 kWt and for solar thermal facilities up to 50 m2, the annual amount of the incentive is constant, calculated as a lump sum and delivered each biennium. Regarding larger facilities, on the other hand, the annual amount of the incentive is constant, calculated as a lump sum and delivered every five years. The incentive, delivered in constant annual rates is equal to a percentage of the expenditure sustained for the operation. The operations can be requested for existent buildings or housing units of any cadastral category, new ultra-efficient buildings (class A), thermal facilities for winter heating and for the production of hot water, for home appliances, motors, and inverters.

With regards to typology of technology included in the incentive, they will be subdivided by category, starting with “facilities of small size,” including heat pumps and water heaters that function by heat pumps, with a nominal power under 500 kW, and solar thermal and solar cooling for a gross surface area less than 700 square meters.

Public subjects and individuals will be able to request new incentives for the installation of heat pumps (electric, gas, and geothermic), solar thermal, solar cooling, and biomass heat generators, the last of which only in cases of substitution for other biomass facilities using diesel or coal.

Among the most significant changes introduced by the new Account, is the cooperation of incentives for public entities to take small actions on energy efficiency in addition to those of the 55%. Included in these small actions is the thermal insulation of walls, ceilings, floors, and the replacement of windows as well as the installation of condensation heat generators. (source Casa Clima)

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CLEVER l’Energy Manager per impianti fotovoltaici monofase di piccola taglia da 1 a 6 kWp. Un sistema di supervisione e gestione di impianto completo, facile da installare e facile da usare. Un apparato semplice e potente supportato dal ”CLEVER WEB”, un efficace servizio di supervisione e monitoraggio offerto dal Connet Control Center per avere sotto controllo la produttività dell’impianto fotovoltaico e la gestione delle utenze domestiche.

Il CLEVER si installa in pochi minuti sul quadro elettrico dell’abitazione dove, con i sensori amperometrici di grande precisione (0,2% fondo scala) in dotazione, effettua le misurazioni della energia prodotta e scambiata verso la rete ed analizza l’energia consumata dalle utenze elettriche fornendo un quadro completo: - Potenza prodotta e consumata (kW) - Energia prodotta (kWh) per fascia oraria - Energia acquistata (kWh) per fascia oraria - Energia venduta (kWh) per fascia oraria - Energia consumata (kWh) per fascia oraria - Energia autoconsumata (kWh) per fascia oraria - Indicatore di ottimizzazione dei consumi (indica quando l’utente è in autoconsumo o in scambio) - Incentivo (Euro) - Datalog illimitato delle misure - Analisi dello storico misure - Relè per pilotare utenze da remoto - Monitoraggio produttività dell’impianto rispetto al valore di riferimento sul territorio in tempo reale(servizio dal CONNET CONTROL CENTER) - Gestione allarmi performance dell’impianto (servizio dal CONNET CONTROL CENTER) - Controllo di stringa (Opzionale con il controllo di stringa) - Allarme antifurto (Opzionale con il controllo di stringa)

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FROM SWITZERLAND NEW TRUST IN PHOTOVOLTAIC In the course of the last 16 months the new SolarMax general headquarters was built in the current offices of Biel, in Switzerland. This new building unites the three previous Swiss offices under the same roof, and consequently, unites the undertakings of development, production, logistics, and administration. According to Solarmax, the proximity of all three departments encourages interpersonal communication, facilitating faster decision making processes and other improvements of processes and direct comparisons.

Environmental compatibility and energy efficiency were the basis of the construction of the new SolarMax building, as befits a company that intends to be a leader in the renewable energy sector. For the occasion, 3.370m ³ of untreated timber were used from the Swiss Alps and foothills, and from Austria and Germany. The wood used saves 2,440 tonnes of CO2. In addition, the inverters are produced in a way that is completely CO2 neutral. The building is equipped with a photovoltaic plant of 220 kwp for an annual energy production equal to 200,000 kWh per year.

The new Solarmax general headquarters constitutes a next step for the business’s development, which has been active for over 20 years. The photovoltaic sector remains therefore of primary interest, despite the fact that the incentives of many countries, including Italy, are slowly being abandoned in order to pay more attention to energy savings and to mechanisms of tax relief.

A new center for Solarmax to favor development in the renewable energy sector. The new building completed last September

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SE 23 SE new development opportunities for renewable energy on the Dark Continent

South Africa: photovoltaic greatness

From December 6 to 8 the Renewable Energy World Africa conference was held. Numerous international delegates from Sandton convention Centre of Johannesburg participated.

This was a conference with speeches and debates on the important strategic challenges and their technical solutions to expand the production of renewable energy in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

The presenters had a special pavilion, which was a center of global expertise and technological excellence in the green energy sector.

The countries of sub-Saharan Africa denounce today a collective energy deďŹ cit with the prospective of rapid

growth of demand in the future. The production of renewable energy offers an enormous potential to contribute to bridging this gap in a continent with abundant renewable resources and large spaces at its disposition.

In the course of the meetings it was pointed out that technology is progressing as quickly as the cost of production in decreasing. For this reason, renewable

energy production will play an important role in the infrastructures of the new Africa, offering solutions both for rural application as well as large projects, such as hydro-electric, wind, and biomass energy. Africa is participating in the growth of the emerging market, the market of renewable energy with investments progressively growing, from 750 million dollars in 2004 to 3.6 billion in 2011.

South Africa recently announced its regulations on re-

newable energy and plans to install 8,400 MW of photovoltaic plants in the next 20 years, which combined with another 1000 MW of solar concentration, theoretically, will provide more than 60,000 jobs.

South Africa will present ďŹ ve tenders to assign in the next two years 3,725 MW, valued at about 12 billion euros. By 2030 the country plans to bring about a rise in renewable energy to 8% of the energy consumed.

Currently we are at less than 1%.

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Born in Japan as the biggest international B2B in the photovoltaic sector, PV EXPO has extended its reputation to the point that today it is considered the best door to enter into the growing Japanese and Asian market, in the PaciďŹ c. The Fair will be held at the same time as the PV SYSTEM EXPO, where a wide range of technologies and avant-garde materials will be presented, including devices for the production of solar cells and photovoltaic modules.

The Fair will be held in Tokyo from February 27 to March 1, 2013.

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FROM THE RISING SUN: THIS ENERGY ACCOUNT IS THE BEST OF INCENTIVES While in all of Europe we are beginning to accept incentives, for the photovoltaic world a new hope opened up last July—the country of the Rising Sun. In Japan new incentive rates for renewable and photovoltaic energy are coming into play, which are valued at nearly twice the amount of German incentives, three times that of Chinese incentives, and are also much more profitable than Italy’s incentives regulated by the Fifth Energy Account.

In Japan, as we know, there is a big energy gap to be filled. After stopping all nuclear energy plants in previous months, Tokyo has made the controversial decision to restart just two nuclear reactors in fear that in lieu of this action, elevated winter energy needs might not be met. From the moment after the disaster of Fukushima it was clear that Japan would direct its energy efforts towards renewables in order to fill its energy gap and to mitigate its energy dependence on foreign countries.

Thus, this Asian country officially reached out to the worldwide photovoltaic industry.

The Japanese government estimates that power from renewables will rise from its current 19.5 GW to 22 GW in less than a year, by March 2013. But these volumes could be considerably higher. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in 2013, Japan will install from 3.2 to 4.7 GW of photovoltaic centers, at least three times 2011’s more than 1.3 GW of photovoltaic centers, which brought the 2011 yearend total to 5 GW installed.

Actually, the incentive, as mentioned, is rather generous. For FV it is 42 yen per kWh, or about 42 euro cents at current exchange rates. The incentives in question for FV are divided in two types depending on plant size: those of a power capacity under 10 kW or above 10 kW each have the right to the same compensation for the first ten years; the former for only the first ten years while the latter for 20 years.

In short, a decidedly attractive regiment, even when we account for the fact that in Japan the cost of photovoltaic plants is currently higher than that of the Euro-

pean market—more than double the cost in Germany.

On the other hand, there are some who maintain that the market price of the facilities will fall significantly, thanks also to the mass landing of modules at cut prices from Chinese producers, who might see an interesting alternative in this nearby country to the market quotes of the USA and Europe caused by new customs barriers in both the US and Europe and because of the economic crisis in Europe.

In our opinion, however, being familiar with the difficulties of accessing the Japanese market competitively, which prefers domestic products, even at much higher prices, there will be a decrease in Japanese offers outside its own borders and it will be rather difficult to organize new business for European and Italian photovoltaic operators.

We know, however, that the Institute for Foreign Commerce, mediated by the Italian Embassy of Tokyo, and in collaboration with the GSE, will make B2B meetings available to Italian companies that have ideas and projects to develop in Japan. Our fantasy would be to win in a country that has started photovoltaic applications in various places, as in the case of the Miyakonojo train station (of the southeastern island of Kyushu), which is illuminated by two megawatts of solar panels.

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According to a recent Eurostat statistic, wood is a natural resource that is being used for various purposes, including (and often most importantly) as a source of renewable energy.

In 2010 wood and wood waste contributed 5% of the EU-27 gross energy production.

Among the member states, the highest quotes of wood and wood waste used to produce energy reached their maximum in Estonia (96%), followed by Poland (81%), Latvia (78%), Finland (76%), Hungary (66%), while the lowest consumption was recorded in Cyprus (13%), equal to that of Luxemburg and the United Kingdom. Italy is found near the bottom of this scale

A “NEW” ENERGY RESOURCE EUROPE’S UNION WITH WOOD

at 24%.

As noted, Eurostat provides the official statistics of the European Union and the statistic just published is intended to be a stimulus for 2012, a year dedicated to the becoming more sensitive to the use of sustainable energy.

In Europe in 2011, about 429 million cubic meters of crude wood were produced, one fifth of which was fuel

wood. For 2013 it is maintained that the crossbar of wood to be burned will move even more towards a sustainable use of this important material, also if an appropriate replanting must be well planned according to rigid regulations. The use of waste and used wood remains important, whose disposal represents an extraordinary resource for cogeneration.

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The Energy Account is running out, but not for all types of plants. In fact, we remind our readers that the DM of July 5, 2012 reserves 50 million euros for power plants with innovative characteristics, in addition to another 50 million euros for solar power plants.

These latter will be discussed in later pages of this publication, while here we will reserve our attention for the so-called innovative plants.

Misunderstandings between clients and installers occur frequently as a result of the unclear term “innovative” and its limits, which are well-defined by the clarifications expressed by the GSE. In order for both parties to understand the correct use, we will summarize here the parameters for qualifying for the incentives for innovative plants, which utilize unconventional modules, which is a photovoltaic module whose use is possible and effective only for architectural applications, being in itself an element of a building. The unconventional photovoltaic module consists of a unique and inseparable product for construction, commercially identified and certified by technical regulations recalled in the Decree Annex 1-A. The following are included in the category: 1) Flexible photovoltaic modules; 2) Rigid photovoltaic modules with the following characteristics: -strips of film-thin rigid support-transparent - for the facades of photovoltaic modules, windows or covers (conveniently created and installed in order to permit the passing of light into the building).

The mounting system must be designed for building integration of the photovoltaic modules and must ensure, together with the surface of the photovoltaic modules and without the use of additional elements, the functions provided by the Decree, including waterproofing.

Lastly, the GSE clarifies that plants are not recognized

as innovative based solely on the characteristics of the assembly system, utilized for the realization of the plant, based solely on an integrated element of a different industrial invention for which a European patent has already been obtained. Architectural integration of the photovoltaic plant is considered when, following an eventual removal of photovoltaic modules, the functionality of the building’s frame is compromised, making the construction no longer suitable for its intended use.

Plants with innovative characteristics obtain access to a particular incentivizing rate only if they are installed on buildings. Therefore, we must clarify the meaning of a “building.”

The DPR of August 26, 1993 n. 412 defines a “building” as a system comprised of outside building structures that outline a space of a defined volume, from the inner structures that make up this volume and all the facilities, technological devices and furniture found inside of it.

The outer surface that outlines a building can coincide with all or some of the following elements: the outside environment, the earth, and/or other buildings. In particular, unconventional modules and special components, as defined above, must be developed specifically in order to integrate themselves and substitute architectural elements of energetically certifiable buildings. The modules and components must guarantee the maintenance of the levels of the energy requirements of the building and must be characterized by heat transference comparable with that of the architectural component that it replaces.

Therfore there must be energy requirements inside the building of application, which must be certifiable to the sense of the specific national regulations currently in force. This requirement can be guaranteed in virtue of a closed volume which allows one to regulate the thermal exchanges between the inside and outside.

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an energy mix to maximize electric and thermal energy

Photovoltaic and Heat Pumps In other pages of SE we have showed how it could be useful in sales, to combine the use of photovoltaic plants with the presence of heat pumps. This combination produces two effects. The first is that of the heat pump in which from 1KW of electric energy produced, 4 thermal KW are obtained. The other effect is the ability to accumulate the energy produced. In this way it is possible to use the energy produced at times other than the moment of production.

The system regulates itself according to solar energy production and internal consumption in order to maximize its efficiency, reducing notably external energy consumption.

As a result, the consumption of the facility itself improves and diminishes the input to the network of energy produced. In this way it is easy to understand how it is possible to expand the economic performance of the system and energy coefficient of the house. Normally the percentage of energy output consumed by the home itself for its own requirements is about 40%

of the energy produced, while with the heat pump this can arrive as high as 80%.

An investment that includes photovoltaic modules and heat pumps is therefore a secure form of income, a step toward the future in the conception of the use of the energy produced, a notable savings on electric bills and an added value to one’s property, before considering the benefit of tax relief provided by current laws.

We will illustrate synthetically with three examples, provided by Waris s.r.l. of Condino, in the province of Trento, an Italian company that produces Italian products, which can be the income of a photovoltaic plant combined with the heat pump at the current energy costs. It isn’t difficult to think about how much savings could benefit one in future years with the constant increase of energy costs—natural gas, fuel, electric energy. The use of the Waris WWK 300 PV modules turns out to be an advantage. In fact, for the production of hot water, not only can one use the heat of the surrounding air , but also the current that is automati-

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cally generated, produced by the photovoltaic facility.

By increasing the percentage of the current used by the home of the plant itself, the GSE incentive also increases. This effect is further reinforced by the water heating function that is activated at the exact moment that the solar plant would otherwise draw current from the network.

Example for 12 modules with an installed power of 2.88 KW and the WWK 300PV heat pump.

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HEAT PUMPS STANGERS TO US ...but converting consumption of gas into consumption of electricity has its benefits, especially in combination with photovoltaic plants More than 20 thousand heat pumps are installed per year in Italy. Nevertheless among, solutions for energy efficiency, they are possibly the least well-known. They utilize electric energy to transfer heat from an environment of lower temperature to one of higher temperature. The heat pumps can therefore be used for heating in winter as well as for cooling in summer.

What are the advantages? The heat pumps provide more heat in respect to the electric energy they consume. They are not subject to cost variability for fuel, and they bring savings of about 40% of bills. There are also some state initiatives, including some in the form of tax relief.

A heat pump can produce heat for the heating of a building or for hot water for sanitary needs, using the energy present in the atmosphere for 75% and taking only the remaining 25% from traditional sources. The technology utilized in the heat pump is based on an external heat source from the environment such as air, water, or soil.

The most common heat pumps are electric, including various models such as: air-air, air-water, water-air,

water-water. The first term stands for the form of the supply and the second stands for the form in which it is distributed inside the building.

The savings is significant and to clearly portray its convenience, a kilowatt of normal electricity costs 0.25 euros, while one thermal kWh with the heat pump costs 0.063 euros.

Currently, tax deductions are effective on 55% of the cost of replacement of heating systems with high efficiency heat pumps—deductions that could be spread out over ten years. With the decree on renewable thermal energy and on energy efficiency, expected at the end of the year, we wait for the confirmation of these deductions or new incentives starting in 2013.

For better understanding of how a heat pump works, one might imagine 100 units of energy inside of a soccer ball. This ball is compressed until it reaches the size of a ping pong ball.

This ball contains the same energy units, but the thermal energy per unit of volume is higher and the air temperature inside it has increased. The sides of the ping pong ball are heated and the beat begins to tran-

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sfer itself to the outside. To bring this heat to another place, one could imagine moving the ball to a cold area, where it will then gradually adjust the temperature until it is equal to that of the environment.

After the ball cools down, it can be brought back to the first place and left to expand in size. Since it has lost heat, it then returns to the size of a soccer ball. Its temperature is too low and therefore begins to absorb thermal energy, cooling the area around it.

The compressor of a heat pump creates exactly this pressure difference that allows the cycle to occur (similar to the ball that expands and contracts). It sucks the refrigerant through the evaporator, where the refrigerant fluid itself evaporates at low pressure, absorbing heat. It compresses it and it pushes it into the condenser, where the fluid condenses at high pressure, leaving the condensed absorbed heat. The refrigerant fluid changes state inside the two exchangers. In the evaporator it passes from a liquid to a gas state and in the condenser it changes from a gas to a liquid.

When comparing the performance of heat pumps, it is best to avoid the term “productivity” because it has various meanings. Rather, it’s best to talk about yield.

The yield is expressed by the performance coefficient, COP, the relation between energy yielded (to the source of interest) and energy consumed (normally electric). A COP value of 3 indicates that for every kWh of electric energy consumed, the heat pump provides heat equal to 3 kWh. We would like to point out that when there is a significant difference of temperature, for example when one wants to heat a house on a very cold winter day, more work is necessary to move the heat. If the heat pump is outside and the evaporator is not sheltered, the COP may descend to a level lower than one, and the humidity of the air may tend to freeze in the vanes of the device (with the need of periodical defreezing). In other words, when it’s very cold outside, it’s best to produce heat inside with a heater, or space heater, or stove rather than taking it from outside.

Commercial heat pumps are quickly developing. The COP has grown in the last 5 years from 3 to 4 and, in some cases, to 5. As a result they are becoming a logical choice for domestic heating. Heat pumps are becoming more and more common for water heating for pools and for domestic uses. As mentioned above, there are two types of heat pumps that run on air. The most common is the air-air heat pump, which extracts heat from the air and moves it into or out of a building, depending on the season. The other type of heat pump running on air is the air-water heat pump, which is used in environments with hydronic distribution of heat (this second version, however, is more rare).

Heat pumps running on air can be designed to work together with a supplementary source of heat, such as a furnace that runs on electricity, natural gas, or diesel.

We will now examine the various functioning phases, starting from the heating phase, where the heat is taken from external air and brought into the building.

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all remaining liquid is collected. Then it is compressed, and the temperature rises as a consequence. The hot vapor reaches the condenser, which is the radiator located inside the building (close to the furnace), and it changes phase leaving the heat of liquefaction. The liquid obtained returns to the lamination valve, and the cycle repeats itself.

The cooling phase, on the other hand, inverts the cycle

just described in order to change the direction of the heat flux. The refrigerant liquid evaporates in the inner radiator and condenses in the external radiator. The internal air is also dehumidified.

When the outer radiator works as an evaporator, its surface has a low temperature when the external air is also cold (the heating phase in winter). This involves the formation of ice on it, due to the presence of humidity in the outside air. In consequence, the performance of thermal exchange is reduced (the ice is insulating). In order to dissolve the layer of ice the reversible valve inverts the cycle and the fan of the exter-

nal evaporator stops, so that it reduces the thermal energy necessary for defrosting. Obviously, while the machine is in this phase, the internal radiator cools the air of the building and then it is necessary to reheat it before reintroducing it into the cycle.

There are two methods to establish when to do the defrosting: with an external temperature sensor and a timer that inverts the cycle every few minutes, or instead, with a more refined control system, which monitors the air flow, the pressure of the refrigerant, and the air temperature. The second method, although more expensive, is preferable, since it avoids unnecessary defrosting and therefore improves the performance of the machine.

Even if the heat pump can provide all the heat that a building needs, it is not convenient when the load for heat is much higher than that of cooling: the pump, made for the winter season, in summer would work in-

termittently, with lower performance and lower capacity to dehumidify.

The cost of the installation can be as much as twice the cost of a traditional furnace and it should be recovered, thanks to energy savings, in about five years in order to be economically attractive.

(source Qualenergia - Vikipedia)

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quiVenditori.com is a leading Portal in Italy, specialized in publishing job offers for trade figures, and it represents a point of reference recognized by companies that need to search for and recruit commercial agents and salespeople in general. quiVenditori.com’s audience includes salespeople, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs of companies operating in the sectors of services, distribution, and industry, who navigate the portal on average more than five minutes at a time.

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COURSE OBJECTIVES To provide information on how to: carry out a technical site inspection, verify technical feasibility, write an executive design, follow the authorization process with local entities, manage rapport with Enel to obtain connection to the network and conduct construction work.

TARGETS Directed at Geometrists, Architects, Industrial Experts, Engineers that want to work with professionalism and continuous updates in the photovoltaic sector.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY The course is practical. The teaching will be active and aimed at involving the participants in order to facilitate learning. There will be exercises in the classroom, video presentations, analysis of planimetrics, project work, and discussion of practical cases.

CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION At the end of the course, a certificate of participation will be issued entitled “RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SOURCES”

PROGRAM Day 1 (8 hours)- From 9:00 to 18:30 with a lunch break from 13:00 to 14:30 Italy Energy Presentation-Energy account and GSE-Conducting an inspection and a technical feasibility analysis.

Analysis of module data sheets, inverter and interface protection. –criteria of electric design of facilities in various configurations-Authorization process and connection to the electric network-Plant typology: fixed, tracking – Maintenance of plants: ordinary and extraordinary – Component characteristics, performance and guarantees – Effects of partial shade. – Protection of FV facilities from overcurrents on the DC side and from atmospheric discharge. – Connecting to the Enel electricity network and conversion cabins.

Day 2 (8 hours) – From 9:00 to 18:30 Measuring instruments and technical-functional audits – Plant testing – The monitoring system and examining from a distance – Directing work – Safety on construction sites: DPI, POS, and Coordination planning ect. – How to collaborate with Energy Italy, authorization process and design projects Day 3 (4 hours) – From 9:00 to 13:00 Visit to a functioning photovoltaic plant.

COURSE LOCATION Sicily – Italy Energy’s Commercial Center – Via Caracci 1, corner of Via Pausania, Castelvetrano (TP)

For further information the offices of Italy Energy are at your disposition by phone: +39 0924.45066, email amministrazione@energiaitalia.info or fax +39 0924.072007

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LED LIGHT A NEW FRONTIER OF ENERGY SAVINGS The cost of the electric bill in Italy represents one of the most important expenditures for families and companies. In this country it is difficult to predict future costs of electric energy because there have been years when the cost increase has reached 15% and other years when it has remained under 5%. One thing is certain however: In Italy electric energy costs much more than in most other European countries. For this reason it is urgent to confront this problem quickly, reducing consumption and making more significant use of renewable energy.

WHAT’S LEDS ILED is an electric component that, with the passing of minimal current, emits light without infrared or ultraviolet rays, lighting up immediately. The LED (Light-Emitting Diodes) technology represents the evolution of illumination to the solid state, in which light generation is obtained through semi-conductors rather than utilizing a filament or gas. LED light is more efficient from an energy point of view, it lasts longer, and is more sustainable. In addition, it creates openings for innovative and creative solutions for use that integrate the light in our homes, our cars, stores, and cities. LED lights are destined, with time, to replace traditional incandescent and fluorescent lights.

ENERGY SAVINGS Thanks to the strong illumination characteristic of LED lights and light bulbs, it’s possible to substitute fluorescent lights (compact or neon) with LED equivalents that consume much less energy, that is, decidedly less power (in watts), which translates into a relevant economic savings. For example, it’s possible to replace a normal 40 W neon light (type T8 of 26 mm diameter and 120 cm long) with an “LED tube” (comprised of almost 300 small LEDs) which consumes no more than 17 W. In this case, assuming an electric energy cost of 0.25 euros/kWh and an average use of eight hours per day, the annual consumption given the two different lights would be respectively 116.80 kWh e 49.64 kWh. Therefore, the annual savings in using the LED lamp instead of the fluorescent or neon lights would be 67.16 kWh, and therefore €16.79 for every lamp of this type.

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LIFE SPAN LED lights maintain 70% of their light emission after 50,000 hours, depending on the EN50107 standards.

This doesn’t mean that one necessarily needs to replace the lights after that period. If the reduction does not create excessive inconveniences, one can easily continue to use the light until it completely stops producing light, estimated at 100,000 hours. Comparing the life span of LED lights with that of traditional light bulbs and hypothesizing an average functioning of six hours per day, we note the following: The average life of an incandescent light is about 1000/1500 hours (250 days) The average life of a neon light is about 4,000 hours (666 days) The average life of a fluorescent light (low consumption) is 6,000 hours (1,000 days) The average life of an LED light is 50,000 hours (8,333 days) HIGH LIGHTING EFFICIENCY The lighting efficiency of a given light source is the relation between its light emission and the power required. The dimension is expressed in lumen/watt. Light emission is defined based on the subjective perception of the average human eye and corresponds to a particular curve on the spectrum of visible light. A light bulb also emits radiation outside of the visible band, generally in infrared and ultraviolet light, which do not contribute to the sensation of luminosity, but rather they damage the sight. A lamp has better light efficiency when it can emit a spectrum that is adapted to human perception. Currently LED lights have lighting efficiency up to 120 lm/W, in comparison with the following other types of lights: 13 lm/W for incandescent lights 16 lm/W for halogen lights 50 lm/W for fluorescent lights

NO DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES LED lights contain silicon dust, no noxious gases or toxic substances, unlike fluorescent and neon lights (metallic halide and sodium vapors). Complete absence of light pollution; LED lights are bright, but they don’t saturate the environment. They emit zero U.V. rays which are generally damaging for humans after extended exposure. They also emit zero I.R. rays, which are damaging to the eyes in direct sight. Such

emissions are also very bad for textile and leather production, which are very sensitive to U.V. rays. Loss of brightness of colors and sclerotherapy of materials, particularly the more natural and therefore precious ones, are often an inevitable consequence of extended exposure to artificial light. One more reason to use LED to illuminate local businesses.

THEY DON’T EMIT HOT LIGHT LED lights generate heat, but they hold it inside of themselves. In fact, their shell can control the heat generated and dispose of it towards external dissipaters.

The power used is thus concentrated optimally for illumination, improving efficiency. The average temperature is rarely more than 50°. LED lights can therefore be installed in contact with wood, plastic, and any material that does not support excessive heat. The savings from controlling the temperature in a highly illuminated atmosphere are notable: in fact, an incandescent or halogen light produces a notable quantity of heat that disperses in the environment and normally, when doing calculations for the design of a plant for climate control, it is considered as a heat source of about 75 W that must be removed. The same source of light, but in LED it is valued with a redundant margin of about 15 W.

NO MAINTENANCE The costs of maintenance of LED light appliances are estimated at about one hundredth of those of sodium facilities currently in use, therefore essentially zero.

COMPATIBILITY WITH ALL ATTACHMENTS The typologies of LED lights commercially available are compatible with all existing dimensions/attachments/voltage supplies. You just need to unscrew the old light and screw in the LED light. The exception is the ceiling neon light, where it is necessary to deactivate the starter.

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some examples: LED lights applications

Top left, a wonderful flat office ceiling light.

Top right, an industrial ceiling light.

Bottom right, street lighting.

Bottom center, a soccer field.

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THE CASE OF A MALL The hypothesis is that of converting the lights of the underground garage and the common areas of an important mall in Lombardy into LED lights.

THE SUBDIVISION SITE The survey was taken on the following portions of the site: 2.

Ramps for going up and down 3.

Access, internal and external emergency stairs 4.

Technical spaces 5.

Unloading zone 6.

Filtering areas 7.

Elevator spaces 8.

Corridors 9.

Common areas of the ground floor and first floor 10.

Restaurant 11.

Balcony

LIGHTS TO BE SUBSTITUTED A. N. 1,964 58 watt tubes with other LED tubes of 24 watts B. N. 928 36 watt tubes with other 12 watt LED tubes C. N. 884 26 watt light bulbs with other 12 watt light bulbs D. N. 300 58 watt tubes with ml. 850 of LED ribbon (72 watt/5 ml)

Below is a business plan that has proven to the customer the cost-effectiveness of the operation and the utility of the planned investment. We must keep in mind that the lights in question are on 24 hours a day. In the first column you will find the current data and LED lighting data, where the power difference and longer durability is immediately evident. Considering that it is a calculation carried out on a 22 hour working day 365 days per year. In the second column both the costs of the replacement, and the costs currently incurred for the annual maintenance of traditional lights are highlighted. In the third column the commitment of funding transfer is shown. The fourth column shows reported operating profits, savings differentiated from the annual energy bill, net cash remaining in the first three years (duration of the bank loan) of paying the installments, and net profit, at the end the guarantee of durability of the LEDs (50,000 hours) though actually LEDs can last much longer, almost double this.

In the last box the savings for lack of maintenance are finally reported. This value that is then added to the "total useful LED life."

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street lights

SMART MUNICIPALITIES e example of the virtuous town of San Martino Lupari The municipality of San Martino di Lupari, in the province of Padua, has completed work on activating LED public lighting in the village. An important job for the town that responds well to the need for energy savings and improves safety for cyclists, pedestrians, and the public, reorienting the center of this fraction.

About 40 new devices were installed and are already functioning.

This intervention completely covers the whole bike lane that connects to Borghetto a Santa Giustina in Colle, the LED lights (acronym for Light Emitting Diode). The LED lights have supplanted and replaced the expensive mercury lights of the old system, bringing about significant savings.

Included in the major news is also a dimming system that activates itself automatically with an electric regulator and that, after a certain hour, reduces the already low consumption of the whole facility by another 30%. This modernization of public lighting has made it possible to redo the squares on three preexisting

lines. In addition to the new public lighting, supplemental devices for installing the supplemental Christmas lights were provided separately.

As Mayor Gerry Boratto explains, “Now that the Borghetto fraction benefits from appropriate, efficient lighting, which undoubtedly improves its street safety and facilitates traffic of the weaker road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc…). Moreover, together with the church we are planning an intervention that will improve the road conditions for pedestrians and cyclists in reaching the church. Optimization of consumption through innovative technology of this generation such as LED, with a notable savings for the municipal treasury and for the citizens’ pockets, is one of the objectives of our Municipal Administration. We will proceed, in fact, shortly with the reconstruction of the whole line of public lighting in four other roads.” (source Padova Oggi)

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to reach its ambitious goal by 2020, the city of the Masses invites designers and businesses

Sustainability is the motor of development of the Turin of tomorrow. Innovation, networks, communications, and mobility are all instruments of change, and together form a new economic reality, culture, and general welfare. After the approval of the Action Plan for Sustainable Energy (TAPE-Turin Action Plan for Energy) proposed by the Pact of Mayors, Turin now confronts a new European challenge: becoming a completely Smart City.

With the Smart Cities initiative, the European Commission sustains the cities that work to increase the energy efficiency of their buildings, of their energy

networks, and of their public transportation systems, in order to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2020.

According to the European Commission, “Smart City” means Smart economy, Smart people, Smart governance, Smart mobility, Smart environment, Smart living.

In this context Turin must therefore get moving, working in collaboration with the public and individuals that operate in the area, on a design platform, a set of actions in order to make Turin a “Smart City,” capable of producing advanced technologies, reducing the energy consumption of its buildings, promoting clean transportation, and improving the general quality of life of its inhabitants in the name of the lowering carbon dioxide emissions. e path that will lead Turin to become a Smart City is part of the more general European 2020 plan, designing a city that can grow, reorganizing itself around strategic administrative options. 51 acts must be put into effect, and partly activated, that foster energy savings, increment energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources. However, for Turin TAPE will also mean lower spending, estimated at 787 million euros per year.

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SE 47 SE In addition, the City has made use of heritage and the experiences of past years, in particular starting from the 1990s, as a response to the “factory city” crisis and at the sunset of Fordism. e goal that Turin has set for itself for 2020 is part of a wider project that requires deep cultural change and a contribution from everyone who lives and works in the territory: public entities, institutions, businesses, associations, individual citizens. It also requires the help of people outside of Turin for participation in the realization of the project.

Turin intends to become a “smart city” and is preparing to confront the challenges of the community “Smart City” initiative, also by redefining its own administrative structure with the establishment of the “Turin Smart City Foundation for Sustainable Development,” an integrated and flexible model for management and financing of the planning that will drive the city’s strategic path. Moreover, the construction of a real Turin Smart City platform has been completed, which, starting from the experiences and indications of TAPE, intends to strengthen, connect, implement, and develop the lines of operation of the new strategic plan. e design platform is first of all a collection of metropolitan issues that will be confronted. Secondly, it MARIO SECHI will constitute the environment of the co-design of the solutions and ideas for arriving together with economic, social, and cultural workers to define a new model. is inclusive model will rewrite the rules of engagement between public and private systems, which will provide for new financial arrangements, that will in turn introduce innovation in public administration, and will see new procedures of procur-

ing, actions of simplifications and transparency of regulation, on which the public administration will know how to formulate credible promises in the middle term. e same platform is also the instrument of integration that must guarantee the systematic nature of the project, a large informational archive, with the objective of integrating and managing data, both for the goal of innovating public services and establishing new ones, as well as the goal to make the data available, in an accessible way, to a new and exciting entrepreneurship.

Today more than 60 entities (participating businesses, private companies, educational institutions, universities, associations, banks, foundations) have signed the Declaration of Interest and presented design ideas. e field is open to further suggestions and proposals.

Mario Sechi, the head of strategic planning for the Turin Smart City Foundation says, “We want our city to take a big leap toward intelligent modern technol-

ogy, especially in the perspective of our objectives for 2020. Unfortunately time does not allow us to make regulations for which there is no economic coverage. erefore we are accepting proposals from whomever wants to help us on the Smart City project, individuating—without a doubt—their entrepreneurial convenience, in a way that coincides with the interests of the city.”

For more information: Municipality of Turin Sector for Environmental Protection via Padova, 29 10152 Turin Phone + 30 011 4426225 + 39 011 4420195/011 + 39 011 4426566/011 +39 011 4426023

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