Electricity generation from waste represents a strategic activity for our country: if on the one hand it helps in solving the waste-disposal emergency, on the other it contributes towards increasing the share of energy produced from renewable sources.

Actelios, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since February 2002, is among Europe’s leading companies in the field of production and marketing of energy generated through renewable sources.

Actelios’ main activities are three-fold:

• electricity production from renewable sources (waste and biomass) at plants situated in Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan) www.termotrezzo.it; Granarolo dell’Emilia (Bologna) www.feafrullo.it; Rende (Cosenza)
  
  
• integrated engineering services that are supplied through Elettroambiente, particularly as a support tool to firms involved in Progetto Sicilia (Palermo Energia Ambiente, Platani Energia Ambiente & Tifeo Energia Ambiente) governing the implementation of a waste-disposal system for the provinces of Palermo and Trapani, in Augusta and Agrigento
  
  
• O&M for plants producing energy from waste as well as biomass, a service provided to Group companies and to Third Parties via its subsidiary Ambiente 2000, a joint-venture with the U.S. multinational Covanta Energy.

Actelios offers the following competitive advantages:

• Experience in building and operating elaborate, high-tech plants in compliance with Best Available Practices
  
  
• Financial solidity and streamlined credit access, also through Project Financing
  
  
• Expertise in relations with the community where the plants are being built
  
  
• Proven Know-how capabilities in operating through alliances and partnerships.

Actelios avails exclusively of renewable fuels (waste and biomass) which means existing natural resources like coal and hydrocarbons are left untouched.

All plants feature high efficiency and large-scale electricity production, utilising little fuel: all this translates into lower atmospheric emissions, far below ceilings envisaged by the law.

Future plans and strategies

• Completion and start-up of plants under construction
  
  
• Synergy integration between WTE (Waste to Energy) and O&M (operations and maintenance)
  
  
• Strategic alliances for the construction of new plants