ENEA (Italy)

Italian government energy agency

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Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile

Established| 1952 (as CNRN)
Mission| R&D
Focus| Technologies for energy and environment
Staff| 2,555 (2009)
Budget| €298 million
Location|

Rome

Italy

Website| enea.it

The Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA; Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) is an Italian Government-sponsored research and development agency. The agency undertakes research in areas which will help to develop and enhance Italian competitiveness and employment, while protecting the environment. ENEA is an acronym that stands for Energia Nucleare ed Energie Alternative ("Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy").

## History

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Initially (1982), ENEA was an acronym that stood for Energia Nucleare ed Energie Alternative ("Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy"), according to its mission statement.

After a referendum against the production of atomic energy in Italy (following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986) passed in 1987, in 1991 ENEA's mission statement was changed and, consequently, its complete name, which became Ente per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e l’ambiente ("Agency for new technologies, energy and environment").[1]

In January 1999 a new charter readdressed the goals for the agency as follows:

* To undertake initiatives aimed at developing, enhancing and promoting research and innovation, in keeping with Italy's EU and international commitments in terms of energy efficiency, environmental protection and technological innovation.
* To support the implementation of high-tech production processes, especially by promoting demand for research and technology oriented towards enhancing sustainable development.
* To promote the transfer of technology and developments in the fields of energy efficiency and environmental protection to public administrations and businesses, in keeping with national and EU guidelines.
* To provide, upon request, specialist technical and organisational support to administrations promoting public initiatives at the international, national, regional and local levels, in all the sectors falling within ENEA's purview.

In July 2009 the Italian parliament passed a law readdressing ENEA's mission statement, including to back atomic energy, and contextually changing its complete name to the current one.[2]

After Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 a second referendum against atomic energy production was held, and passed again. As the role of ENEA became contradictory to the referendum outcome, it was restructured once again in July 2015 and its mission statement was readdressed in order to be more coherent with the Italian energy policy.

In the nuclear sector ENEA participates in the development of the ITER fusion reactor to produce clean energy.[3]

## Research centers

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Besides the headquarters[4] in Rome, ENEA has the following research centers and laboratories in Italy:

* Bologna Research Center
* Brasimone Research Center (near Bologna)
* Brindisi Research Center
* Casaccia Research Center (Roma)
* Faenza Research Laboratory
* Frascati Research Center
* Ispra Research Laboratory
* Portici Research Center
* Santa Teresa Research Center (Pozzuolo di Lerici, near La Spezia)
* Saluggia Research Center
* Trisaia Research Center (near Rotondella)

## References

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1. ^ Italian Senate archive (PDF)
2. ^ "L 99/2009". parlamento.it.
3. ^ "Home". fusione.enea.it. Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
4. ^ "Enea". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2004-01-16.

## External links

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* Official website (in English)
* Some specialistic ENEA's research sites:
* CRESCO - Supercomputing and ENEA- Grid Center (Centro computazionale di RicErca sui Sistemi COmplessi)
* Meta-Knowledge Engineering & Management (MKEM): High-Intelligent Socio-Cognitive Systems Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
* Thermal-Fluid Dynamics Archived 2018-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
* Biosensors & Bioelectronics \- COSMIC: COupling Smart Molecules Into Chips

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