(Finance) – The third edition of ‘Terna Ideas – Corporate Entrepreneurship‘, the program of corporate entrepreneurship dedicated to the people of Triad with the aim of identifying innovative solutions to help strengthen the Group’s role as director of the energy transition.
In this new edition, the company led by Stefano Donnarumma aims to find new ideas consistent with the ambitions that guide the Group’s strategy. Participants will be asked to look to the future and propose their own ideas on how to manage the evolution of electric system, increase the performance and resilience of transmission networks, increase efficiency and minimize the risks deriving from the activities of maintenance, deal better with the new ways of working by helping to create a company in which people are increasingly at the centre; all with particular attention to sustainability and to energy transition as key factors in Terna’s activity in favor of a just transition that creates value and benefits for the company, its stakeholders and the surrounding system.
Furthermore, this year the search for innovative ideas will be even more widespread throughout the country and will aim to involve all the corporate functions present throughout the country: in particular, meetings dedicated to people from ‘Installation Unit’, the Group offices located throughout the country, where mainly technicians and operators work who can concretely contribute to the generation of the best solutions to optimize Terna’s business and grid management and maintenance activities.
As in previous editions of ‘Terna Ideas’, the Group will support the best initiatives by transforming them into real projects capable of generating added value for company activities.
‘Terna Ideas – Corporate Entrepreneurship’ puts the Group’s people at the centre, giving workers the opportunity to express themselves as entrepreneurs, encouraging their potential and enhancing it creativity And skills, with an active and participatory involvement. The programme, launched for the first time in 2021, saw the active participation of 640 people from the Terna Group in the previous two editions. In the two years a total of 228 ideas were published, of which 24 followed one development Of incubation dedicated. For the seven winning ideas, three in 2021 and four in 2022, the road to design development was then opened. Furthermore, last year the Terna Ideas platform (ternaideas.terna.it) was transformed into a open innovation, also open to the external ecosystem. Precisely on this virtual space, Terna has launched a challenge on the theme of ‘Data Science for Resilience‘, for the search for solutions capable of enhancing the corporate data assets and to support activities in the field of predictive maintenance and monitoring of electrical infrastructures.
Technological, process and cultural innovation is one of the pillars on which the business of Terna. To respond to the growing complexity of the electricity system, increasingly characterized by the integration of renewable sources, in updating the Business Plan 2021-2025 ‘Driving Energy’ the company that manages the national transmission grid has planned around 1.2 billion of investments dedicated to innovation and digitization, out of the total 10 billion. In particular, Terna will focus on more technological solutions for the remote control of electric stations and transmission infrastructures, thanks to the use of sensors, monitoring and diagnostic systems, including predictive ones, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, to improve the safety, reliability and resilience of electricity grids, also to the benefit of the territories.