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  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: White LED street lamps with their glass panes removed light up a street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_637...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A man photographs the Colosseum by a white light LED lamppost (center, foreground), while the background is lit by yellow light sodium lampposts (background, left) in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_635...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white light LED lamppost (center, foreground) and yellow light sodium lampposts (background, left) are seen here by the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_634...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Campo de' Fiori in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_646...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Piazza Navona in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_646...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates a street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_644...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates a street, while an old sodium yellow street light illuminates the other (right), in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_642...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates Piazza della Madonna di Monti, while the streets in the background are still lit by the old sodium yellow street lights, in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_642...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates Piazza della Madonna di Monti, while the streets in the background are still lit by the old sodium yellow street lights, in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_642...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: An image of the Virgin in a frame attached to a wall, with above it was a bare LED street lamp with its glass panes removed, is seen here in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_639...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: White LED street lamps with their glass panes removed light up a street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_636...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: (L-R) A white light LED lamppost and a yellow light sodium lamppost are seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_622...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: (L-R) A white light LED lamppost and a yellow light sodium lamppost are seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_614...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A sodium yellow light lamppost, which has not yet been subsistuted by a LED lamp, hangs over a street in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_614...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A flat rectangular LED lamp, which subsititued the transparent dome-shaped lamps, hangs over a street in the Coppedè neighborhood by the tower of the church of Santa Maria Addolorata in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_609...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A historical lamppost in which the sodium warm light bulb was subsituted by a LED light bulb in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_599...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Campo de' Fiori in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_647...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Campo de' Fiori in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_647...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_645...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light illuminates Piazza della Madonna di Monti, while the streets in the background are still lit by the old sodium yellow street lights, in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_639...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street lamp with its glass panes removed is seen here in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_636...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: White LED street lamps with their glass panes removed are seen here in the foreground, while the yellow street lights in the background hang over the street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_629...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: (L-R) White light LED lampposts and a yellow light sodium lamppost are seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_625...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white light LED lamppost is seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_615...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A flat rectangular LED lamp, which subsititued the transparent dome-shaped lamps, hangs over a street in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_609...jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A man is seen here at work during the production of pasta at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, w
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5185.jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: A louvar caught by fisherman Paolo Fanciulli is seen here on the "Sirena", his fishing boat, in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Dina Lanzi (49),  Head of Technical Business Unit Hydrogen at Snam, poses for a portrait in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend,
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5467.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Vincenzo Milito (72), founder of the family-owned Orogiallo pasta factory, poses for a portrait in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen b
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5459.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Antonella Milito  (52), CEO of Orogiallo, poses for a portrait in her family-owned pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5450.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Antonella Milito  (52), CEO of Orogiallo, poses for a portrait in her family-owned pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5439.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Fresh Orogiallo pasta with chickpeas and calamri is seen here at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blen
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5329.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A man is seen here at work during the production of pasta at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, w
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5259.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A man is seen here at work during the production of pasta at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, w
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5226.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A man is seen here at work during the production of pasta at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, w
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5170.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A man is seen here at work during the production of pasta at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, w
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5111.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Women are seen working in the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4887.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Arturo Melito (85), co-founder and head technician of the Orogiallo pasta factory, walks by the factory entrancein Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume o
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4771.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: The gas pipes that inject a hydrogen blend are seen here in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydro
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4454.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A technician is seen here in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station, where the first experiment of hydrogen blend injection in Europe  took place, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
S
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4266.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A pipe carrying a hydrogen blend is seen here in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend,
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4224.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A hydrogen scanner shows a 10% level of hydrogen in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blen
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4210.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Hydrogen tanks are used here in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station for an experiment of hydrogen blend injection, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4170.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: The Contursi Terme gas reduction station, where the first experiment of hydrogen blend injection in Europe took place, is seen here in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4124.jpg
  • SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: Marco Alverà (44), CEO of SNAM, poses for a portrait at the SNAM headquarters in San Donato Milanese, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first time in Europe. This directly supplied two companies, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company that both operate locally.
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3984.jpg
  • SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: Marco Alverà (44), CEO of SNAM, poses for a portrait at the SNAM headquarters in San Donato Milanese, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first time in Europe. This directly supplied two companies, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company that both operate locally.
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3921.jpg
  • SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: Maria Luisa Cassano,  SVP of Dispatching and Measuring at Snam, is seen here at the SNAM Dispatching Center in San Donato Milanese, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The SNAM dispatching center is a strategic infrastructure to manage gas flows on the domestic transmission network. The main gas pipelines and compressor stations that make up the Italian gas system are monitored or remote controlled 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the operation room. A large videowall, about 50 square meters, provides operators with an overall view of the domestic gas transmission network with the main points of interest and the related process information.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for th
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3676.jpg
  • SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: The SNAM Dispatching Center, which manages gas flows in the Italian network, is seen here in San Donato Milanese, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The SNAM dispatching center is a strategic infrastructure to manage gas flows on the domestic transmission network. The main gas pipelines and compressor stations that make up the Italian gas system are monitored or remote controlled 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the operation room. A large videowall, about 50 square meters, provides operators with an overall view of the domestic gas transmission network with the main points of interest and the related process information.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first time in Eu
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3552.jpg
  • SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: The SNAM Dispatching Center, which manages gas flows in the Italian network, is seen here in San Donato Milanese, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The SNAM dispatching center is a strategic infrastructure to manage gas flows on the domestic transmission network. The main gas pipelines and compressor stations that make up the Italian gas system are monitored or remote controlled 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the operation room. A large videowall, about 50 square meters, provides operators with an overall view of the domestic gas transmission network with the main points of interest and the related process information.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first time in Eu
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3453.jpg
  • DALMINE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: The experimental test of a 2MW burner at the RINA  combustion station is seen here in Dalmine, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The test is validating performance  of a 2MW burner with a gas mixture of 70% methane and 30% hydrogen (H2NG), and compare them against natural gas use.<br />
<br />
Snam and RINA have launched a project to test the suitability of existing industrial burners, generally not specifically designed for hydrogen content mixture, to burn gas with increased hydrogen content. provides a vast array of engineering and consultancy, testing, inspection and certification services, dedicated to all players of the energy sector, including SNAM<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first tim
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3279.jpg
  • DALMINE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: The experimental test of a 2MW burner at the RINA  combustion station is seen here in Dalmine, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The test is validating performance  of a 2MW burner with a gas mixture of 70% methane and 30% hydrogen (H2NG), and compare them against natural gas use.<br />
<br />
Snam and RINA have launched a project to test the suitability of existing industrial burners, generally not specifically designed for hydrogen content mixture, to burn gas with increased hydrogen content. provides a vast array of engineering and consultancy, testing, inspection and certification services, dedicated to all players of the energy sector, including SNAM<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first tim
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3173.jpg
  • DALMINE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: The combustion of a hydrogen and methane gas blend is seen is seen in an oven during an experimental test of a 2MW burner at the RINA  combustion station in Dalmine, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The test is validating performance  of a 2MW burner with a gas mixture of 70% methane and 30% hydrogen (H2NG), and compare them against natural gas use.<br />
<br />
Snam and RINA have launched a project to test the suitability of existing industrial burners, generally not specifically designed for hydrogen content mixture, to burn gas with increased hydrogen content. provides a vast array of engineering and consultancy, testing, inspection and certification services, dedicated to all players of the energy sector, including SNAM<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3109.jpg
  • DALMINE, ITALY - 10 FEBRUARY 2020: (L-R) Massimo Derchi, SVP Business Unit Asset Italia of Snam, and  Guido Chiappa, EVP of  Industrie Rina, look inside the oven during an experimental test of a 2MW burner at the RINA  combustion station in Dalmine, Italy, on February 10th 2020.<br />
<br />
The test is validating performance  of a 2MW burner with a gas mixture of 70% methane and 30% hydrogen (H2NG), and compare them against natural gas use.<br />
<br />
Snam and RINA have launched a project to test the suitability of existing industrial burners, generally not specifically designed for hydrogen content mixture, to burn gas with increased hydrogen content. provides a vast array of engineering and consultancy, testing, inspection and certification services, dedicated to all players of the energy sector, including SNAM<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Saler
    CIPG_20200210_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_3070.jpg
  • SERGNANO, ITALY - 9 FEBRUARY 2020: Workers walk by a compression unit in the Sergnano compression plant in Sergnano, Italy, on February 9th 2020.<br />
<br />
The Sergnano compression plant is functional to the strengthening of the Snam-owned Italian gas infrastructures and their interconnection with Europe. In particular, the compression station allows the increase of gas transport capacity along the east-west route of the Po Valley and makes it possible to export gas to the Passo Gries and Tarvisio exit points towards Switzerland and Austria. The plant occupies a position of convergence of the main gas pipelines in the northern area of Italy.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first time in Europe. This directly supplied two com
    CIPG_20200209_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_2913.jpg
  • SERGNANO, ITALY - 9 FEBRUARY 2020: A worker is seen here on the roof of a turbocompressor building overlooking the Sergnano compression plant in Sergnano, Italy, on February 9th 2020.<br />
<br />
The Sergnano compression plant is functional to the strengthening of the Snam-owned Italian gas infrastructures and their interconnection with Europe. In particular, the compression station allows the increase of gas transport capacity along the east-west route of the Po Valley and makes it possible to export gas to the Passo Gries and Tarvisio exit points towards Switzerland and Austria. The plant occupies a position of convergence of the main gas pipelines in the northern area of Italy.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced into its natural gas transmission network in Contursi Terme, Salerno (Italy), to 10%, this just a few months after the 5% hydrogen blend was introduced into the network for the first time in
    CIPG_20200209_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_2827.jpg
  • OLBIA, ITALY - 32 AUGUST 2019: A plastic bag containing rocks confiscated to a tourist is seen here in a deposit of all confiscated beach items at the airport of Olbia, Italy, on August 31st 2019.
    CIPG_20190831_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • OLBIA, ITALY - 32 AUGUST 2019: A plastic bag containing sand confiscated to a tourist is seen here in a deposit of all confiscated beach items at the airport of Olbia, Italy, on August 31st 2019.
    CIPG_20190831_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • OLBIA, ITALY - 32 AUGUST 2019: A plastic bottle containing beach pebbles confiscated to a tourist is seen here in a deposit of all confiscated beach items at the airport of Olbia, Italy, on August 31st 2019.
    CIPG_20190831_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • OLBIA, ITALY - 32 AUGUST 2019: A plastic bottle containing beach pebbles confiscated to a tourist is seen here in a deposit of all confiscated beach items at the airport of Olbia, Italy, on August 31st 2019.
    CIPG_20190831_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • CABRAS, ITALY - 29 AUGUST 2019: A beach umbrella is seen here on the white sand, made of quartz grains, here at the Maimoni beach in Cabras, Italy, on August 29th 2019.
    CIPG_20190829_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • CABRAS, ITALY - 29 AUGUST 2019: .Pina Careddu (58), a local activist who stops tourists from taking sand, poses for a portrait at the beach Is Arutas in Cabras, Italy, on August 29th 2019.
    CIPG_20190829_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • STINTINO, ITALY - 28 AUGUST 2019: Two baracellis (a local rural police) tells a bather that it is forbidden to use fabric and spong towels at the beach La Pelosa in Stintino, Italy, on August 28th 2019. It is forbidden to use sponge towels on the sand at Le Pelosa beach, to avoid sand being trapped in the fabrics.
    CIPG_20190828_STERN-SardiniaSand_M3_...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 26 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) poses for a portrait in fron of "The Young Guardian", a sculpture by artist Emily Young waiting to be lowered in the sea in Talamone, Italy, on August 26th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: (L-R) Sandra Galvis, a former Greenpeace activist and Paolo Fanciulli's fourth wife, is seen here together their assistant Nader on Paolo's fishing boat "Sirena" as they sail back to the harbour in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: Visitors untangle fish from the net on the "Sirena", Paolo's fishing boat in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: A bucket of fish caught by fisherman Paolo Fanciulli is seen here on the "Sirena", his fishing boat, in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: The fishing net used by fisherman Paolo Fanciulli is seen here on the "Sirena", his fishing boat in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) throws fishing nets from his "Sirena" boat as visitors watch him work,  in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: A view of the Tuscan coast in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) throws fishing nets from his "Sirena" boat as visitors watch him work,  in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: A view at sunrise of Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: A view at sunrise from the harbour in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 26 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) poses for a portrait in fron of "The Young Guardian", a sculpture by artist Emily Young waiting to be lowered in the sea in Talamone, Italy, on August 26th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 26 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) poses for a portrait in fron of "The Young Guardian", a sculpture by artist Emily Young waiting to be lowered in the sea in Talamone, Italy, on August 26th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 26 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) poses for a portrait in fron of "The Young Guardian", a sculpture by artist Emily Young waiting to be lowered in the sea in Talamone, Italy, on August 26th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: "Acqua", a carved piece of Carrara marble by artist Giorgio Butini, is seen here 8 meters underwater in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_D...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: "Acqua", a carved piece of Carrara marble by artist Giorgio Butini, is seen here 8 meters underwater in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_D...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: "Ittico Ziggurat", a 20 tonne carved piece of Carrara marble by artist Massimo Catalani, is seen here 8 meters underwater in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_D...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 27 AUGUST 2019: "Ittico Ziggurat", a 20 tonnes carved piece of Carrara marble by artist Massimo Catalani, is seen here 8 meters underwater in Talamone, Italy, on August 27th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190827_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_D...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 26 AUGUST 2019: Fisherman and activist Paolo Fanciulli (58) navigates on a rubber dinghy on his way to the location where four marble-carved sculptures were lowered in the sea, in Talamone, Italy, on August 26th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190826_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • TALAMONE, ITALY - 26 AUGUST 2019: "The Young Guardian" (center), a sculpture by artist Emily Young, sits on the grass together with seventeen other sculpted marble blocks waiting to be lowered in the sea in Talamone, Italy, on August 26th 2019.<br />
<br />
In 2006, fisherman Paolo Fanciulli used government funds and the donations from his loyal excursion clients to fund a project in which they protected the local waters from trawling by dropping hundreds of concrete blocks around the seabed. But his true dream was to lay down works of art down on the sea floor off the coast of Tuscany. His underwater art dreams came true when the owner of a Carrara quarry, inspired by Mr. Fanciulli’s vision, donated a hundred marble blocks to the project.<br />
Mr. Fanciulli invited sculptors to work the marble and set up kickstarter accounts, boat tours and dinners to fund the project. The acclaimed British artist Emily Young carved a ten-ton “Weeping Guardian” face, which was lowered with other sculptures into the water in 2015.<br />
Since then, coral and plant life have covered the sculptures and helped bring back the fish. And Paolo the Fisherman is catching as many of them as he can.
    CIPG_20190826_NYT-UnderWaterMuseum_M...jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Salvatore Ricco,  Head of Communications at Snam, poses for a portrait in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experime
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5526.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Dina Lanzi (49),  Head of Technical Business Unit Hydrogen at Snam, poses for a portrait in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend,
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5480.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Vincenzo Milito (72), founder of the family-owned Orogiallo pasta factory, poses for a portrait in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen b
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5455.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Antonella Milito  (52), CEO of Orogiallo, poses for a portrait in her family-owned pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5443.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A chef is seen here after preparing lunch at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experim
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5356.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A man is seen here at work during the production of pasta at the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, w
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5252.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Pasta is seen here during its production in the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experime
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5153.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Pasta is seen here during its production in the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experime
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5132.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Pasta is seen here during its production in the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experime
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_5017.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Pasta is seen here during its production in the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experime
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4951.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Women are seen working in the Orogiallo pasta factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydrogen blend, which was experimentally introduced
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4851.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Antonella Milito  (52, center), CEO of Orogiallo, a family-owned pasta factory, walks in the factory in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
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In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydro
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4828.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A technician of the Orogiallo pasta factory closes the door of the boiler room at the pasta factory, which is part of the SNAM experiment that supplied a hydrogen blend to the factory, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4636.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A technician is seen here by a SNAM company car fueled by methane at the Contursi Terme gas reduction station, where the first experiment of hydrogen blend injection in Europe  took place, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4567.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A methane pipeline is seen here by the Contursi Terme gas reduction station, where the first experiment of hydrogen blend injection in Europe  took place, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewab
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4510.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Hydrogen tanks are used here in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station for an experiment of hydrogen blend injection, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4496.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: The gas pipes that inject a hydrogen blend are seen here in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume of the hydro
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4449.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: Technicians are seen here at work in the Contursi Terme gas reduction station, where the first experiment of hydrogen blend injection in Europe  took place, in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renew
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4309.jpg
  • CONTURSI TERME, ITALY - 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A technician opens the valve of a pipe carrying a hydrogen blen to the the Contursi Terme gas reduction station in Contursi Terme, Italy, on February 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
In April 2019, Snam was the first company in Europe to introduce a blend of 5% hydrogen and natural gas in its transmission network. The trial involved supplying H2NG (hydrogen-natural gas blend) for a month to two industrial companies in the area, a pasta factory and a mineral water bottling company. The trial at Contursi was repeated in December 2019, doubling the hydrogen blend to 10%.<br />
Applying a permanent 10% hydrogen blend to the total gas transported annually by Snam would mean that 7 billion cubic meters could be injected into the network each year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 3 million households. This would allow for a potential reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 5 million tons.<br />
<br />
Italy is optimally positioned to become a leading hub for green hydrogen from North Africa to<br />
Europe. Italy could use its solar resources and its existing connection to North Africa (which has even better<br />
solar resources) to set up a leading hydrogen hub.<br />
<br />
Snam is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies and first in Europe by gas transmission network size (32,625 km in Italy, over 41,000 with international subsidiaries) and storage capacity (16.9 billion cubic meters in Italy, more than 20 bcm with international subsidiaries).<br />
<br />
In September 2018, together with other European companies, Snam signed a Hydrogen Initiative declaration to support hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable energy source. The signatory companies have undertaken to gradually integrate hydrogen into gas transmission networks and to encourage their use as a solution for energy storage, as well as to support the development of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, which allows more efficient use of energy intermittent renewables.<br />
Snam has recently doubled the volume o
    CIPG_20200211_NYT-Hydrogen_M3_4248.jpg
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