SITE VISIT OBJECTIVES
To discuss energy management in Italy and to present an example of waste utilisation for energy recovery. In fact, the Andrea Palladio coal-fired plant is one of first structures in Italy to experiment the use of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) as fuel for electricity production.

INSTITUTION/COMPANY PROFILE
Created in 1962 as the Italian National Electricity Board, ENEL is today an industrial holding company; in the last decades, together with the traditional operations (productions, transmission and distribution), steps have been taken to develop new business areas. ENEL operates with conventional energies like coal and oil and with renewable energies as well. Some branches of the company are in fact devoted to research and applications of new technologies like hydroelectric, wind, solar and geothermal energy.