The energy consumption of a productive industry is necessarily significant: if the first objective is to minimise the need for energy, optimizing processes and eliminating waste, on the other hand the priority is to aim more and more firmly towards renewable sources of supply. It is precisely in this direction that the investments put in place by Specialtrasfo in recent years: a commitment that has allowed us to meet almost all of our energy needs thanks to solar and that, by the end of this year, will allow us to produce much more energy than our production plant needs, as part of a philosophy based on the achievement of a Carbon Negative production.

As September 2022, the production plant could count on a nominal installed capacity of 66 kW for an annual production of about 85 thousand kWh: considering the average consumption of the Agrate site, except for the power needed to test the produced transformers, which is about 150 thousand kWh, with the plants in operation we were able to cover 57% of our annual needs thanks to solar energy. The goodness of the decision to provide us with a modern and efficient solar system has encouraged us to accelerate on this road, so much so that in the following months the nominal installed power was 100 kW, for an annual production of 126 thousand kWh, 84% of our energy needs.

A trend we have no intention to stop; not only we decided to reach the total coverage of the company’s annual energy consumption, but we will go further.  Specialtrasfo has allocated the funds and organized the works so that by the end of 2023 the nominal installed base has doubled, which will increase from 100 to 200 kW and will allow us to cover about 160% of our needs: in this way we can both contribute to the production of an increasing share of clean energy and support industrial expansion over time.
For Specialtrasfo the environmental issue is a priority which is shown not only by the measures taken, such as the implementation of a high-level solar system, but also by the invitation to the ABB Energy Efficiency Supplier Symposium organized by the Energy Efficiency Movement, of which we have already talked in a dedicated article. The goal of the meeting was to find practical ways to plan the energy future and to put more and more into practice all those technologies that are already available today to make a difference. Well, we believe in it, and this is one of the many demonstrations.