On 18 January last, AlmavivA S.p.A. and Esco Italia S.r.l. concluded an agreement to promote all activities relating to surveying energy consumption in the civil and industrial fields, linked to the monitoring and management of energy and energy certificates. The aim is to rapidly adapt to the Kyoto Protocol for reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

But it’s not all about the Kyoto Protocol, in fact, the European Commission too has placed energy efficiency at the core of the EU strategy for 2020.

The purpose of the agreement between AlmavivA and Esco Italia is to transform energy from a production cost into an opportunity for business growth. By monitoring consumption, the AlmavivA and Esco Italia have set themselves the aim of supporting Italian companies to both cut back on management costs linked to energy, and innovate their production cycle to ultimately improve their energy efficiency. Moreover, the agreement will also enable those businesses that implement efficiency enhancement measures, however complex, with respect to their premises, plants and production processes, to obtain Energy Efficiency Certificates, as a financial plus.

Over the years, AlmavivA Group has developed the SEM - Smart Energy Management platform, which analyses, controls and monitors energy consumption. Esco Italia Group has a ten-year proven experience in the development and management of energy efficiency-enhancing projects and managing Energy Efficiency Certificates, Green Certificates and Emission Quotas.

AlmavivA The Italian Innovation Company is one of the leading Information & Communication Technology providers in Italy and the only one capable of offering an all-round range of services, from System Integration, Information Security & Business Continuity, IT Outsourcing to Business Process Management, Consulting e Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Gaming Technologies.

The key hallmarks of AlmavivA are its capacity to master an exhaustive array of technologies, and to design, develop and manage large-scale ICT systems, besides providing CRM services based on quality and multichannelling, a second-generation proprietary semantic and ontology-driven technology, proprietary technologies for gaming, and far-reaching and reliable Information & Communication Technology infrastructure: an invaluable wealth of expertise and know how that AlmavivA can deploy to assist its customers in improving their business performance and enhancing their competitive edge.

Esco Italia is an Energy Service Company founded on the desire to tackle increased energy consumption and the consequent deterioration of the natural environment. The company has been operating in the energy efficiency sector for ten years now and, thanks to its cutting-edge approach, has become a nationwide leader in its sector.

Its aim is to develop an energy prototype based on reducing energy consumption and on distributed energy. Esco Italia is the first Esco in Italy to have voluntarily obtained the UNI CEI 11352:2010 certification, relating to the requirements energy service providers must possess; it has also obtained the UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 certification for quality management systems.