



Level of priority is given by the relevant amount of Paper and Pulp Industries, Power and Heat Generation and Steel and Iron Industries in Italy. In addition, those industries are the highest producers of CO2 according to official estimates.
Level of opportunity is more or less high for each technology. Solar systems as well as CHP have in particular a very high potential for Italian SMEs.
Minimization of energy consumption together with process integration (Energy integration that deals with the global allocation, generation and exchange of energy throughout the process) is an important challenge.



