ESCo investment of 4.3 million euros for Italy’s leading group that will achieve cost and pollutant emission savings

The line of interventions dedicated to the energy efficiency of energy-hungry industrial plants, to encourage the green transition of companies, put in place by White Energy Group SpA, an Esco based in Verona and specializing in the consulting and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable transition solutions for companies, is being expanded.

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 saw the startup of the second of two new cogeneration plants for two companies in the Cereal Docks Group, an Italian industrial group that has been a market leader for more than four decades in the primary processing of agribusiness for the production of ingredients derived from oilseeds and grains for applications in the feed, food, pharma, cosmetic, and technical and energy sectors.

“We are proud to stand alongside an excellence such as Cereal Docks Group, with our expertise in the field of cogeneration interventions financed in a direct way with the EnPC (Energy Performance Contract) formula and through cutting-edge solutions that can support its growth,” said Gianluigi Mele, managing director of Whitenergy.

The operation was handled by Future Energy srl, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Energy Group SpA, which built the two cogeneration plants for Cereal Docksa Marghera (Venice) and Ital Green Oil in San Pietro di Morubio (Verona).

The plants were built with an energy service formula, combined with an EPC formula, i.e., with a performance guarantee on the interventions made and with Future Energy taking over the financing burden.

The total investments in excess of 4 million euros, will enable the agri-food processing industrial group to save money on the cost of supplying electricity, thermal and possibly refrigeration energy, and at the same time save more than 1,000 toe (tons of oil equivalent) of primary energy and fossil fuels.

Specifically, at the San Pietro Morubio plant, a new AB Energy 2.0 MWe Ecomax 2 .0 cogeneration plant including steam supply by means of an integration boiler has been installed, while at Marghera the existing 4.4 MWe cogeneration plant including a duplex boiler for steam production has been fully upgraded.

“At a time such as the one that companies are experiencing with regard to energy supply costs, there emerges the need to favor technologies related to cogeneration, with the aim of incentivizing the virtuous use of this source and reducing the dependence of Italian industries on the electricity grid,” explained Franco Asuni, Chief Business Development of Whitenergy and actor in the agreement with Cereal Docks. Salvatore Fadda, head of O&M at Whitenergy and administrator of Future Energy, highlights “the reduction in emissions, amounting to more than 2,000 tons of CO2 that will be achieved through the intervention, with the efficient and combined production of different energy carriers:

electricity, heat.”

Paolo Fanin, Vice President of Cereal Docks pointed out that “the support of a partner such as Whitenergy, in the search for new alternatives aimed at saving energy and cutting polluting emissions, fundamental goals for a benefit company such as ours, was appreciable. The goal was also achieved, despite the complexity of authorization, to carry out the interventions quickly and without impacting the normal activities of our plants.” Finally, Luca Franzosi, energy manager at Cereal Docks emphasizes thenoteoussavings on energy supply costs,a key aspect at a time when efficient resource management is strategic for industrial competitiveness.