TAURUS Room
11.30am - 1.50pm Biogas, a well-known reality in the economic and energetic panorama

Chair: Marco Pigni (APER)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

The bioenergy sector: a framework of reference
Cosetta Viganò (APER)

Biogas: potentialities and uses
Andrea Poggio (Legambiente)

Biogas, agriculture and environment: Regione Lombardia's experiences
Gabriele Boccasile (Regione Lombardia)

From local to national reality: the spreading of biogas plants in Italy
Tommaso Barbetti (APER)

Copenhagen: a blueprint for a green future
Edward Chaplin (Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Italian Republic and San Marino)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Marco Pigni (APER)

TAURUS Room
2.30pm - 4.30pm The future of biogas in Italy: pros and contros

Chair: Sergio Piccinini (CRPA)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

The production of energy from biogas: outlooks and problems
Gianluca Valenti (Politecnico di Milano)

Development potentialities of the biogas production from the Italian zootechnical sector
Nicola Colonna (ENEA)

Question time

Biogas as a resource to reach 20/20/20 goals and possible normative and institutional support*
Piero Gattoni (Kwerde Consorzio)

Biogas: strategies for increasing the value of thermal energy
Cesare Sala (CNR Milano), Silvana Castelli (CNR Milano)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Sergio Piccinini (CRPA)

AQUARIUS Room
10.00am - 12.50am From biomass to biogas: sources

Chair: Walter Righini (FIPER)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

Sources: virgin biomass, biomass from waste, refuse
Sergio Piccinini (CRPA)

Main cultivations for the production of biogas: characteristics, yield, preservation
Gino Magni (Pioneer Hi-Bred Italia)

Question time

Biogas from dumps and anaerobic digestion
Fabrizio Adani (Università di Milano)

From biomass to biogas: a study for building a power plant and its subsequent possible uses
Study Group of CNR Master in 'Management of biomass and processes for energy production'

Question time

Biological hydrogen production from biomass
Giulio Izzo (ENEA)

RE-WISE: an integrated solution for energy production from food waste by the use of existing infrastructures
Piero Rusconi Clerici (Ecofast Italia - 'RE-WISE D'Appolonia' Project), Anna Laura Eusebi(Università Politecnica delle Marche)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Walter Righini (FIPER)

AQUARIUS Room
2.00pm - 4.10pm From biomass to biogas: technologies and company case histories

Chair: Franco Cotana (CRB, Università di Perugia)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair.
Focus on experiences and activities of National Biomass Research Center, established by the Italian Ministry of the Environment

Biogas production: development potentialities
Francesca Malpei (Politecnico di Milano)

Question time

Biogas from landfill bioreactor and biomass heap
Gilberto Garuti (Acqua & Sole)

Biogas from agrozootechnical chain: environmental and territorial aspects
Roberto Zocchi (Asja Agricole, Gruppo Asja)

Agricultural cooperation for agro-energy supply chain
Luigi Buson (MT-ENERGIE Italia)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Franco Cotana (CRB, Università di Perugia)

AQUARIUS Room
4.20pm-5.50pm From biomass to biogas: investments and protection of power plants

Chair: Tommaso Barbetti (APER)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

Investing in a biogas plant: the drawing up of a business plan
Christof Erckert (ALPI Biogas)

Minibiogas as an opportunity of investment: a positive case
Paolo Luisotto (BluEnergyControl)

The technical protection of a power plant: reliable choices
Alessandro Massone (Austep)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Tommaso Barbetti (APER)

AQUARIUS Room
10.00am - 1.30pm The normative and authorizative framework for building a biogas plant

Chair: Stefano Maglia (Università di Parma)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

The normative framework
Lorella Rossi (CRPA)

Applicative problems of authorizative procedures for FER power plants
Simona Viola (Studio legale Bucello Croci Piscitelli Viola)

The 'Denuncia di Inizio Attività' (Starting Building Activity Declaration) and small-sized plants
Lucia Bitto (APER)

Question time

Break

Agricultural biogas: enforcing an entrepreneurial model in different regions
Giorgia Zaffrani (CNR Milano)

The management of digested material
Lorella Rossi (CRPA)

Focus on Nitrates Directive
Flavio Sommariva (SATA)

Analysis of European authorizative procedures for biomass power plants
Pietro Rescia (Golder Associates)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Stefano Maglia (Università di Parma)

AQUARIUS Room
2.30pm - 5.10pm Incentives to the production of biogas

Chair: Sofia Mannelli (APER)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

Opportunities and advantages from the production of biogas: electricity, heat, biomethane
Alessio Campi (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano)

Selling the produced electricity
Alberto Gelmini (ERSE)

The all-comprehensive rate for electricity from biogas: applications in the agricultural sector
Piero Gattoni (Agroenergia), Luca D'Apote (Fattorie del Sole)

Question time

Break

Biomass from the production chain
Cosetta Viganò (APER)

Heat recovery opportunities and energy efficiency stocks
Daniele Forni (FIRE)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Sofia Mannelli (APER)

AQUARIUS Room
10.00am - 12.00am Biomethane

Chair: Sergio Piccini (CRPA)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair.
Focus on "The production of biomethane in Italy: today's situation and prospects of development"

Which incentive for biomethane for its economic sustainability?
Claudio Fabbri (CRPA)

Question time

Biogas purification technologies for its use in vehicles and release into the grid
Christof Erckert (ALPI Biogas)

'Oil Free Zone' in the Province of Trento: the case of 'Comunità del Primiero e Vanoi'
Marco Tassan (FIAT Research Center)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Sergio Piccini (CRPA)