Four new clean energy dispensers with “Zero Emissions” have started operating at the central headquarters of Italcementi in Bergamo. The clean energy dispensers, belonging to Italgen - the Italcementi Group’s company producing and distributing electricity, were unveiled at a ceremony attended by the Environmental Councillor of the Province of Bergamo, Alessandra Salvi, the Headmaster of the Industrial Technical Institute ITIS Natta, Giovanni Infantino, who accompanied 25 students from class 3B, and Giuseppe De Beni, Managing Director of Italgen.
The “green and clean” energy produced by Italgen’s hydro-electric power plants, situated in the mountains of Lombardy, is being brought to the city and, through the energy dispensers, used to recharge the company’s electric means of transport and those at the disposal of employees. Italcementi’s “green fleet” is composed of six electric bicycles and one electric van that are used for errands in town. Employees have also been given the possibility of purchasing electric bicycles and using the dispensers during working hours for recharging purposes. A veritable complete ecocycle with “zero impact” that avoids emitting CO2 into the air and allows users to travel 50 km on a full tank costing only seven Euro cents.
Giuseppe De Beni, Managing Director of the company, during his presentation emphasised the commitment of Italgen, and more in general of the Group, to environmental sustainability: from innovative smog-eating products, to the new cement works able to considerably reduce emissions and the projects underway involving wind farms in Mediterranean countries. “The green energy dispensers unveiled today are further evidence of our commitment involving the whole energy chain: from hydro-electric power plants as far as the heart of the city. Even the offices of the central headquarters use clean energy” De Beni pointed out.
“The Province of Bergamo has also been involved in recent years in coordinating a series of actions in the area aimed at improving air quality in the long term, focusing particular attention on water and renewable energies” explained Alessandra Salvi .
The Industrial Technical Institute ‘Giulio Natta’ of Bergamo is committed to offering training to young people in the area of environmental issues. “It is the school’s duty to prepare good technicians who know how to operate in the field of alternative energies and the introduction of new courses of study – ecology and the environment - is a proof of this,” declared Giovanni Infantino, the Institute’s Headmaster.
At the end of presentations, all participants met in the yard of the company’s headquarters to fill up with clean energy and to “road test” the electric bicycles, which the students found most appealing.