10.30am - 1.00pm An enormous resource, still to exploit

Chair: Giancarlo Passaleva (UGI)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair: 'Geothermal energy, a centuries-old history'

The Italian geothermal patrimony
Umberto Puppini (CNG)

Geothermal fields in Sicily and suggestions of exploitation
Aurelio Aureli (Università di Palermo)**, Gioacchino Cusimano (Università di Palermo)**, Mario Dipasquale (Università di Palermo)

The use of underground energy resources as opportunity of an industrial developmnet consistently with the Kyoto Protocol
Andrea Monti Guarnieri (Ergycapital)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Giancarlo Passaleva (UGI)

2.30pm - 4.30pm Geothermal resources for the generation of electricity

Chair: Franco Donatini (ENEL)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair: ' A qualitative and quantitative panorama on the use of geothermal resources for the production of electricity in the last ten years'

A new prototype of electrical power plant for the optimal use of geothermal resources : Enel's 'Innovative Geothermal Project'
Marco Paci (ENEL)

The social-economic implications of geothermal activity
Marco Frey (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa)

Environmental impacts connected to geothermoelectric generation
Isabella Nardini (CEGL)

High-enthalpy geothermal electricity production: the 'state of the art'
Paolo Romagnoli (Enel)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Franco Donatini (ENEL)

10.00am - 1.00pm The second- and third-generation geothermal energy

Chair: Giuseppe Caravita ('Il Sole 24Ore')

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair: 'An innovative geothermal energy to overcome the limitations in electricity production'

EGS geothermal energy: background, challenges, opportunities
Giorgio Santucci (EGS Association)

Potentialities of traditional and EGS geothermal energy fields
Adele Manzella (CNR Pisa)

Development and potentialities of the second-generation geothermal energy
Francesca Baticci (Politecnico di Milano - C. Gavazzi)

EGS: potentialities of the third-generation geothermal energy. Procedural criteria
Maurizio Masi (Politecnico di Milano)

Question time

2.00pm - 5.40pm Geothermal resources for direct uses

Chair: Domenico Savoca (Regione Lombardia)
Co-chair: Umberto Puppini (CNG)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair

National and local support policies

The strategic role played by the direct use of geothermal energy to satisfy Italian energetic needs
Sergio Chiesa (CNR IDPA)

The Italian normative situation: a critical analysis and the incentive system
Paolo Calcaterra (Progettazione e Consulenza)

Exploitation of regional geothermal resources: present situation and outlook in the programmes of Regione Lombardia
Domenico Savoca (Regione Lombardia)

An example of local support: regional geoenergetic maps
Dino De Simone (CESTEC)

Question time

Break

Medium- and low-enthalpy geothermal applications: opportunities to increase energetic efficiency and wellbeing

Environmental and technical sustainability in the use of medium- and low-temperature geothermal resources
Umberto Puppini (CNG)

Technical regulations to support low-temperature geothermal applications
Dario Molinari (CTI)

Innovative and economic systems to exploit residential-use geothermal energy
Stefano Caligaris (Oberthal)

Testing geothermal plants: normative, environmental and functional aspects
Guido Noce (GEOenergia)

Question time

Conclusions by the Chair
Domenico Savoca (Regione lOMBARDIA)

10.00am- 1.00pm Technologies for the use of medium- and low-enthalpy geothermal resources

Chair: Paola Bombarda (Politecnico di Milano)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair: 'Reaching maximum energy efficiency and convenience at local level'

Planning principles of geothermal plants: methods, costs and payback times*
Savino Basta (Geotermica Saval), Fabio Minchio (Geotermica Saval)

The success of a geothermal heat pump plant: experience and qualified multidisciplinarity
Luca Tirillò (GroundHeat Systems International)

Waterbed geothermal plants: applications in the Milanese area
Cesare Laffi (CEFLA)

Question time

Break

The European 'Ground Reach' Project*
Mauro Brolis (CESTEC)

The European 'Best Result' Project to promote renewable energies. The role of geothermics
Marco Spiccia (Tera Energy)

Geothermal heating technology*
Carlo Piemonte (Università di Brescia)

Question time

2.30pm - 4.00pm Exemplary case-histories of geothermal resource direct use

Chair: Fausto Batini (CEGL)

Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair: 'From Tuscany an example to take inspiration from, in order to design new economic and lifestyle models respecting the environment'

E.GEO large plants and possible scenarios of market evolution
Giovanni Manfroi (E.GEO)

Energy tunnels: geothermal applications for Frejus Tunnel
Riccardo Delmastro (GEOenergia)

Geothermal power plant, research and development project about an experimental geothermal field
Geothermal heat pump and geothermal field with different types of energy wells, monitoring of energy efficiency and the soil thermal response
Daniele Attala (RCT)

Question time