This is the ideal candidate to play an important role in the energy economy of the future, characterized by ecologically clean sources and vectors. It is an element that becomes widely available, without creating international dependencies, and whose life cycle is completely circular – it is extracted from water and becomes water again – without leaving any residue.

Hydrogen is a very light fuel with a high energy density, characteristics that make it particularly efficient for energy storage. Its chemical-physical properties and new technologies make it an ideal choice to support the electrification of consumption and qualify it as a direct competitor of lithium batteries for all electrical systems and appliances. Its production cost is becoming increasingly competitive – an estimated dollar and a half per kilo as early as 2025.

The use of hydrogen as an energy buffer will allow the creation of interconnected local distribution systems (microgrids) that will thus be able to respond to new consumption habits that create a variability of energy demand that is not sustainable from the current infrastructure. Suffice it to say that a house today has an average daily energy demand of 12 kWh, while an electric car has a daily average of about 15 kWh, but can reach peaks of 110 kWh, generating a clear need for balancing the energy demand. It will therefore be necessary to create a flexible and local model capable of supporting the national grid by rebalancing the energy demand.

Decentralized and local production, the management of the daily peak demand of electrical equipment and the predictive analysis of a variable and complex demand will be the main areas of technological design of this scenario.

In the vehicular context, electrification is a transformation that has already been underway for several years. Mobility is a sector that will be among the first to be largely electrified: it is expected that 90% of vehicles will be electric by 2050. In this context, e-Novia concretely interprets and promotes change. Deep technologies in the field of vehicular and industrial robotics are, in fact, an essential element of this energy transformation process.

The intersectoral collaboration of the mobility and energy industrial chain will be a fundamental strategy for the design of new technologies enabling local production and distribution systems. In this context, thanks to its expertise in deep tech and its role as a technology manufacturer, e-Novia places itself at the center of an interconnected network of industrial players in the energy, vehicular and technological sectors that collaborate to generate concrete responses to the opportunities that emerge. from the scenario of decentralized energy production.

The goal is to transform qualified ideas into sustainable, scalable and valuable business projects that have a positive impact in supporting electrification, an essential path for the energy transition.

e-Novia thus expands its pipeline, with business projects based on the diversification of the innovation area, which look at the entire path of the energy transition with actions and initiatives that represent a response for the present and future market. Solutions that arise from the centrality of people in their relationship with technology and the constantly evolving context.

In particular, there are three areas that e-Novia has identified:

• Personal Power Station: a new way to power the house, the car and all electrical appliances by transforming water into green hydrogen which will be stored and, when necessary, made available in the form of electricity.
• Hybrid Control Unit: the home of tomorrow will increasingly be a means of distributing energy to all mobile and stationary applications that will need it. This is why new technologies are needed to predict, balance and make energy flows efficient.
• Energy Emission Capture: since the transition will be a long and gradual path, e-Novia intends to start giving a concrete answer that generates a positive impact in terms of decarbonisation. The product is a system that converts the current gas into hydrogen and uses technologies for the capture, use and storage of carbon through photobioreactors.

Projects that already live and give substance to the future of energy conversion to electricity, without neglecting the difficulties – and opportunities – that are already arising for the management of an epochal transition.