40,000 tons of CO2 saved in 2020
Acea Group invests on electricity produced from clean renewable sources, in particular photovoltaic plants.
Photovoltaic systems play an increasingly relevant role in our Group’s strategies for sustainable development. As a matter of fact, by designing new systems, Acea has embarked on a development path to produce energy from photovoltaics. Our 2020-2024 Business Plan worth 4.7 billion euro, 2.1 billion of which dedicated to achieving sustainability targets, is conceived to contribute to the decarbonization and energy transition process also by increasing the production of energy obtained from renewable sources.
To this end, the photovoltaic projects aim to reach an installed capacity of 747 MW by 2024.
40,000 tons of CO2 saved in 2020
Our plants are normally built on the ground and the energy they produce is introduced in the network. In terms of sustainable development and efficiency, Acea has also built some plants to satisfy the energy needs of the Group’s facilities and buildings, such as the one in the industrial hub in Orvieto, which in 2020 generated 239 MWh of energy. A similar plant, installed at the waste-to-energy plant in Terni, in 2020 produced 483 MWh of electricity, of which approximately 54% was used on site, while the rest went into the distribution network.
The most recently built photovoltaic plants have bifacial panels that generate energy using not just the side facing the sun but also the back, which captures the sunlight that reflects from the ground.
Tracking devices allow solar panels to move during the day and follow the movement of the sun. Trackers installed on the plants can be of two different types: single axis trackers, that allow panels to move along the axis, or dual axis trackers, that provide total freedom of movement.
With photovoltaic systems, Acea aims at strengthening the generation of electricity, sustaining decarbonization and energy transition.
