On 30th March, the “Modern Times 2050” series of three meetings drew to a close at the S. Castromediano Archaeological Museum in Lecce. The event entitled “Energy and Knowledge in Transition” was promoted by the Leonardo-Civiltà delle Macchine Foundation. The collaboration with the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation was important, one of the most prestigious historical, economic and socio-political documentation and research centres in Europe.
The main subject was the “green transition”. In fact, the “new energy” district of Apulia, set up in 2007, is actually located in Lecce, where over two hundred businesses, associations and universities carry out research to improve and increase supply chains in the renewables sector.
Giuliano Mameli, our Energy Manager, a role he also covers for Leonardo, took part in the workshop, showing Leonardo’s energy management model, designed and created fully in line with the company’s sustainability pathway and with its official goals of reducing energy consumption and the relative CO2 emissions. The Self-Production Programme fits in with this approach, which will soon see the opening of five pilot solar panel systems in Nola, Vergiate, Cisterna di Latina, Decimomannu and at e-geos in Matera, focusing both on the reduction of consumption from the external grid and on the stabilisation of supply prices.
Once the workshop was over, our CEO, Walter Perrotta, took part in the public debate, reminding people of the importance and commitment of LGS in the region of Apulia, the site of four factories (Foggia, Taranto, Grottaglie and Brindisi), where there are about two thousand workers.
In this framework, new technologies are becoming a key element for reducing energy consumption. “In Apulia alone, we have over 250 suppliers with whom we generate annual sales of more than sixty million euros. But what we are implementing, as a big business, for the digital transition is what we are building together with our supply chain: it is the result of constant collaboration with the supply chain which, together with Leonardo, is growing, innovating and becoming increasingly digital, international and sustainable. With this in mind, we have created our energy self-production project, which is based on solar power and starts from the possibility of using industrial areas already in use, so there is no need to take up new land”.
Leonardo Global Solutions has always focused on developing the culture of saving energy, promoting sustainability as a guiding approach for all our business.
In particular, LGS plays a crucial role in energy in coordinating all the levers of the energy management model, aimed at integrated management of the Group’s consumption and expenditure.
In terms of energy efficiency, there are many initiatives aimed at reducing the structure of our consumption and at increasing the amount of energy from renewable sources: for example, the Energy Self-Production Programme involves launching pilot systems for over 7MWp of power and will help generate more than 10% of the energy consumed by the sites involved.
The digitisation of our factories has already involved the installation of sensors for monitoring and energy efficiency, and will play a decisive role in the future for the development of our assets.
Our factories are more and more frequently trialling innovative technologies and solutions becoming, just like with the Demand Response Programme, an active part of the energy system, which helps with the stability of the national electricity grid.
Our energy supplies, implemented using an advanced portfolio management model, allow us to constantly monitor the relevant markets, diversifying the risk linked to the strong volatility of market prices, which has been more topical than ever in the last few months.
Mr Perrotta finished his speech by touching on “knowledge” and reminding people of the importance of a culture of sustainable energy, something which we follow with our exemplary behaviour here at LGS through our work and the actions of our people.