(Finance) – Terna has launched the new edition of “Terna Ideas”, the corporate entrepreneurship program designed to promote the culture of corporate innovation and seek technological solutions to strengthen one’s role as director and enabler of the energy transition. One of the main innovations of 2022 – explains Terna in a note – is the sustainability, which acquires greater centrality becoming one of the key and transversal criteria, both in the proposition and in the evaluation of ideas.
In detail “Terna Ideas” will focus on 3 new challenges, focused on the search for ideas regarding: the evolution of the training offer and working methods; the increase in efficiency in the management of the electricity network through digital tools and the enhancement of data; solutions that consolidate the corporate commitment in circular economy actions. Terna will support the best initiatives turning them into real projects able to create value for the company and beyond.
“Terna Ideas – highlights the note – puts the Group’s people at the center, giving workers the opportunity to express themselves as entrepreneurs, encouraging their potential and enhancing their creativity and skills. This is part of Terna’s strategy which, in order to achieve the goal of sustainability through innovation, it has chosen to adopt the Open Innovation approach: open to the realities of the external innovation ecosystem – such as startups, universities and research centers – and aimed at its people, through their active involvement and participatory. As regards this latter aspect, in fact, ‘Terna Ideas’ provides a training course on key concepts and tools for innovation, open to the entire company population “.
To respond to the growing complexity of the electricity system, increasingly characterized by renewable sources, in the update of the Industrial Plan 2021-2025 “Driving Energy”, the company led by Stefano Donnarumma he expected approx 1.2 billion in investments – of the total 10 billion – dedicated to innovation and digitization. In particular, Terna will focus on the most technological solutions for the remote control of power stations and transmission infrastructures, thanks to the use of sensors, monitoring and diagnostic systems, including predictive ones, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, to improve safety. , the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, also to the benefit of the territories.
The first edition, in 2021, involved the entire company population, with the participation of 400 people, the publication of 143 ideas and the launch of a project development path for the 3 winning initiatives. Last year, “Terna Ideas” also won the “Smau Innovation Award”, a recognition of the great propensity for innovation of Italian companies assigned to the realities that more than others have provided a concrete innovative contribution to their company.