Legambiente Brindisi:THE ENERGY TRANSITION IN SCHOOL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

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Legambiente’s activity continues with schools in Brindisi which in 2019 produced a proposal for a regeneration plan for the area between the petrochemical plant and the Brindisi south thermoelectric power plant with the Fermi-Monticelli scientific high school, with the Durano artistic high school, with the industrial technician Giorgi and with the Carnaro nautical institute.

As part of the week of the sea and the initiatives coordinated by the port authority of Brindisi, the conference “Energy from the sea” took place on Wednesday 10 April, organized with the Giorgi industrial technical institute, in which, after the report by Professor Riccardo Amirante, professor professor of the Polytechnic of Bari, the engineer Giulio Teodoro Maellaro drew the attention of the students and teachers present to the importance of offshore wind farms in the energy transition and presented his project which has obtained various international awards and appreciation for its production of electricity and hydrogen from wave motion. The students saw how the system works through a model put into operation during the conference.

On Saturday 20 April as part of the “Green energy day”, which sees Legambiente participating in various initiatives in Italy and Puglia, with 10 teachers and 140 students from the Fermi-Monticelli scientific high school in Brindisi, a detailed visit will take place in plants of the energy cycle energy sources. After the program of visits carried out in 2023, on Saturday 20 April there will be a visit at 9am to the Villa Castelli hydroelectric power plant which the Apulian Aqueduct has renovated and made technically and energetically more efficient; at 11 there will be a visit to the Irigom plant in Taranto, a virtuous example of circular economy in which, among other things, there is full recycling, recovery and reuse of photovoltaic panel components; at 12.30 there will be a visit to the Renexia offshore wind farm in Taranto, launched after a long and disconcerting administrative process which demonstrates how many institutional and bureaucratic obstacles stand in the way of developing renewable sources.

Schools, from primary schools to universities, are carrying out an intense knowledge and training activity concerning the energy transition and companies in the sector also in Puglia show a growing technological capacity that politics and institutions should support in a program of effective decarbonization which cannot contemplate projects such as that of the coastal LNG depot in the port of Brindisi in an area with enormous potential for the development of the intermodal ship-to-train port and related logistics.