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sources, electricity “Digitally smart storage, within a variable renewables.
storage plays an proactive regulatory system and with When the penetration of
increasing role in the the option of long duration, can really variable renewable energy
renewable energy support the roll-out of renewable sources approaches very
transition. energy forms to achieve Net Zero high levels, the main
An important feature is emissions driver for electricity
the Storage with Digitally storage seems the
Smart control, another capacity to react to
point is the proactive regulatory system to provide renewable surplus integration even with long cycle
market signals enabling investors to make an time (big energy shifting): therefore, Long-term
attractive return. electricity storage technologies remain an important
But there is no definite answer to the question of how option.
much storage will be required at which renewable Our conclusion is that Digitally smart, within a proactive
penetration to reach Net Zero. Yet there is a broad regulatory system and with the option of long duration,
consensus in the literature that system-wide storage STORAGE can really support Renewables up to Net
needs remain moderate up to fairly high shares of Zero Emission.

Antonio Zingales

Antonio Zingales graduated with honors in Electrical director with responsibility for Italy and Europe. In SAET
Engineering from the University of Padua. After a short since 2000 as commercial director he contributed to the
university collaboration, he joined Passoni & Villa in EPC role of electrical protection systems, then of
Milan in a technical position and contributed to the turnkey HV stations, and finally of Energy Storage
creation of a business unit dedicated to High Voltage Systems. He then took part in the sale of the majority
test equipment. Master in Economics and Business stake to Falck Renewables in the SAET board of
Organization in 1987 at SDA Bocconi in Milan. Since directors . From 2022 with the entry of the Falck
1990 he has been involved in Industrial Robots for the Renewables group he became Corporate Development
Japanese STAR group in the position of commercial & Innovation Director.

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