Automotive and energy transition: Michelin Italiana
With Edison NEXT a 360° route to decarbonising tyre production
Automotive and energy transition: Michelin Italiana
With Edison NEXT a 360° route to decarbonising tyre production
Automotive and energy transition: Michelin Italiana
With Edison NEXT a 360° route to decarbonising tyre production
A ‘tailor-made’ path to optimise consumption
The collaboration between Edison NEXT and Michelin Italiana began in 2021 as a result of the company's desire to build plants for the production of energy with a low environmental impact from renewable sources for the Cuneo plant. All with an ambitious goal: to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 and reach Net Zero by 2050.
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The Cuneo plant
Michelin Italiana's Cuneo plant is the largest Michelin tyre production site in Western Europe. It has over 60 years of history, now employs 2600+ employees and has a production capacity of 13 million car tyres per year.
Edison NEXT's solution
Together with the customer, Edison NEXT has studied a decarbonisation roadmap, which includes an integrated mix of technologies, including some mature ones such as photovoltaic, while others more prospective such as hydrogen. The combined interventions allow the production plant to be essentially autonomous in terms of energy needs: 97% of the energy required is self-produced and about 16% comes from renewable sources, allowing a reduction in CO2 emissions of about 18,000 tonnes per year1. This has already made it possible to reduce emissions by 47% compared to 2010, making it possible to advance towards the 2050 Net Zero objective and to anticipate the 2030 target of a 50% reduction in emissions and 30% of energy from renewable sources.
Trigeneration plant
Design, construction and installation of a new highly efficient and flexible trigeneration plant capable of simultaneously producing electricity, water for heating and cooling, and steam. The 23 MWe plant has a thermal production capacity of 5 tonnes per hour, and is built with endothermic engines powered by natural gas.
Integrated boiler system including a biomass boiler
Design and realisation of a thermal energy production system through a biomass boiler and 3 auxiliary natural gas boilers. The biomass boiler has a production capacity of 8 tonnes per hour and uses wood biomass from a certified supply chain, safeguarding the local area, enhancing local resources and synergies and further contributing to the project's sustainability goals. The natural gas boilers, on the other hand, serve as a supplement and reserve for steam production and each has a production capacity of 30 tonnes per hour with an efficiency of 92.5%.
Photovoltaic
Design, realisation and installation of three photovoltaic plants with a total capacity of 2.1 MWp to supply the plant's electricity grid. One of these plants is located on the ground, while the other two are on the car park canopies.
Biomethane and hydrogen
Innovative solutions can also be implemented in terms of using biomethane and hydrogen. In particular, the new trigeneration plant, which is naturally ready to use biomethane, is also already prepared for the use of hydrogen with a 10% blending.
Key figures
(1) The calculation, performed by means of standard emission coefficients, is based on the CO2 emission reduction in the new configuration (Trigeneration + Renewable Sources) compared to the former situation of the on-site production systems.
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