(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Intesa Sanpaolo presented today in Naples a new solidarity initiative to support the energy communities of the Third sector which sees the birth of two projects carried out by the Fondations of the Communities of San Gennaro (Naples) and Messina. The new line of intervention falls within the scope of Intesa Sanpaolo’s commitment to ESG sustainability and the ecological transition – as indicated in the PNRR – in support of businesses, families and non-profits.
At the meeting, which took place at the Intesa Sanpaolo museum of the Gallerie d’Italia in via Toledo, attended by Giuseppe Nargi, Regional Director of Campania, Calabria and Sicily of Intesa Sanpaolo, Elisa ZAMBIO Marsala, Head of Social Enhancement and Relations with the Universities of Intesa Sanpaolo, Marcello Mentini, Head of Regulatory Evolution Agenda of Intesa Sanpaolo, Gaetano Giunta, Founder of the Messina Foundation, don Antonio Loffredo, Founder of the San Gennaro Community Foundation, Pietro Barrera, Project Manager Grande MAXXI, Simone Benassi, Head of Energy Communities Italy Enel, Alessandra Bonfanti, National Manager of Legambiente Small Municipalities, Massimo Deandreis, Director of SRM – Study Center connected to the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Luigi Lavarone, Member of the Management Committee of the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea.
Energy communities – explains the note – are associations made up of local public bodies, third sector entities, companies, commercial activities or private citizens who choose to acquire infrastructures for the production of energy from renewable sources and self-consumption through a model based on sharing. These are collaborative forms, focused on a local exchange system to promote sustainable development and reduce energy dependence on the national electricity system, while at the same time encouraging the birth of new circular socio-economic models.
“The Group, over the last two years, he has been involved in supporting real social engineering operations implemented by third sector subjects who are committed to finding solutions to the delicate and widespread issue of energy poverty. In this context, important interventions were designed to support two of the most important community foundations in Southern Italy, San Gennaro and Messina. Two concrete examples of which we are proud: best practices that can be replicated throughout the country”, he declares Elisa Zambit Marsala, Head of Social Enhancement and Relations with Intesa Sanpaolo Universities.
“In his Green Encyclical, Pope Francis tells us that it has become urgent and imperative to develop renewable energy sources. At the same time, the Pope lamented the limited access to clean and renewable energies by the most fragile. Talking about Energy Communities means talking about participation, bottom-up associations, self-consumption, a model based on sharing and local exchange. It means talking about sustainable development and support for families in a state of fragility”, explains Don Antonio Loffredo, Founder of the San Gennaro Community Foundation. “The experience of the Energy Community in the Health District could not pass through us without leaving new generative opportunities.
“Straight back and fierce love for this wonderful piece of land received by lot”, So Ermanno Rea closes his novel Nostalgia. There is no time, we must immediately begin to write words of heaven on the piece of earth that we have received by lot. And if we happen to write them with the sun’s rays, we would have helped to illuminate the lives of the people who are the center of the entire community building action beyond the houses.”
Gaetano Giunta, Founder of the Messina Foundation, he talks about the experience “in our area there has been an Energy Park for more than ten years that produces energy from the sun and the sea, is a choice we have believed in for some time. Since last December, thanks to the planning support of Intesa Sanpaolo, the Energy Community of the ecological condominium of Fondo Saccà was born: we are talking about solidarity energy that the Foundation promotes also thanks to a social enterprise, an Energy Service Company (ESCo), which allocates its profit to social development projects, but not only. We collaborate with various research centers to create functional prototypes to support the green transition. Activities that are also a fight against inequality and poverty. A green and virtuous circularity in all its aspects.”