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MATS Project Kick-off Meeting Rome, 25 – 26 July 2011 The MATS Project (Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar)

• Dr. Giovanni Lelli

Commissioner ENEA

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MATS:

Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar List of the Project Partners

1- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Sustainable Economic Development – ENEA (Italy) 2- TECNIMONT KT (Italy) 3- Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, ASRT (Egypt) 4- New & Renewable Energy Authority, NREA (Egypt) 5- Delft Environment (Egypt) 6- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung d. Angewandten Forschung e.V. (ISE) (Germany) 7- University of Cranfield (UK) 8- Orascom Construction Industries, OCI (Egypt) 9- RONDA Group (Italy) 10- French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, CEA) (France) 11- Archimede Solar Energy, ASE (Italy) and CLP Project as external Sponsor

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 1952: Was established the National Committee for Nuclear Research  1960: The Committee became CNEN (National Committee for nuclear energy), to promote the diffusion of nuclear energy in Italy  1982: The Committee was transformed in ENEA, assuming the task of dealing with all types

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 1991: Due to referendum result on nuclear energy, the activity in the nuclear field was limited to a monitoring of the international evolution of this technology, continuing to deal with the other types of energy  On the 23rd of July, 2009, the Law n. 99/2009 assigned to ENEA the role of the Italian

“ Agency for New Technology, Energy, and Economic Sustainable Development ”

• perating in the fields of energy - with a particular focus on nuclear energy - sustainable

economic development and new technologies in order to support competitiveness and sustainable development policies at the national level MISSION:

“ supporting Italian energy policy through the promotion and innovation of sustainable technologies ”

A long history to face the challenges of the future in the energy sector in Italy

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ENEA IN FIGURES

Human Resources (total employed 2898 at 31.12.2009)

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ENEA-ARST scientific cooperation

In 2009 ENEA and ARST signed a MoU, under the auspices

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the Italian Ministry

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Economic Development and the Egyptian Ministries of Research and of Energy “…to develop power plants to generate electricity, on the basis of new technologies….with the aim of making Egypt an important pole for the generation and distribution of solar energy…”

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MATS project is focused on the innovative CSP technology developed by ENEA as an improvement of its Solar Thermodynamic technology, based

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molten salts as Heat Transfer Fluid and Heat Storage Fluid. It allows combined heat and power production from solar source integrated with renewable fuels, such as biomass or biogas.

MATS:

Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar

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ENERGY, but not just energy

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Thank you for your attention