Why REGEN-by-2?
The EU framework for renewable energy aims to develop new technologies for the exploitation of local Renewable Energy Sources (RES), which will form the backbone of the energy system by 2030 and 2050. These new technologies must not only have a commercial potential but they should also reduce the environmental impact and greenhouse gases emissions of the current energy system, stimulate the creation of high-tech industries and strengthen the EU’s global leadership in RES. In 2018, the revised Renewable Energy Directive entered into force, as part of the ‘Clean energy for all Europeans’ package, establishing a binding RES target for 2030 of at least 32% of the overall consumed energy in the EU.
REGEN-BY-2 will provide a decisive contribution to fulfil these ambitious EU objectives by developing a novel multi-generation, all-in-one integrated energy plant capable of converting any type of RES thermal source, from low to high-temperature, in energy vectors such as electric, heating and-or cooling powers, thus enabling the simultaneous supply to multiple typologies of end-users with different energy demands.