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Ansaldo Energia and Energy Dome



            for innovative energy storage solutions





            With this agreement, Ansaldo Energia enters into a strategic
            segment of the energy supply chain: a crucial operation in the era
            of “ecological transition”

            Alice Pesenti, Product Manager, Energy Storage
            Alessandro Giacchino, Head of BOP Engineering Department
            Ansaldo GreenTech









                                                                                               Claudio Spadacini,
                                                                                               Energy Dome CEO
                                                                                               and Founder, Daniela
                                                                                               Gentile, Ansaldo
                                                                                               GreenTech CEO and
                                                                                               Giuseppe Marino,
                                                                                               Ansaldo Energia CEO
                                                                                               after the signature of
                                                                                               the license agreement
                                                                                               that allows Ansaldo
                                                                                               Energia to use the
                                                                                               Energy Dome
                                                                                               proprietary energy
                                                                                               storage technology
                                                                                               based on the
                                                                                               compression and
                                                                                               expansion of CO .
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            L           ast april Ansaldo Energia and its   reliability in the distribution of energy produced from


                                                     renewable sources.
                        subsidiary Ansaldo Green Tech
                        signed a license agreement that
                                                       “Ansaldo Energia and its subsidiary
                        allows the Company to use the
                        Energy Dome proprietary energy
                                                       agreement that allows the Company
                        storage technology based on the
                                                       to use the Energy Dome proprietary
            compression and expansion of CO . The agreement   Ansaldo Green Tech signed a license
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            also provides for the marketing license of Energy   energy storage technology
            Transition Combined Cycle (ETCC) technology in   based on the compression
            combination with gas turbines. The license agreement   and expansion of CO 2
            follows the Memorandum of Understanding signed
            last year and the due diligence carried out by   The innovative storage system called CO  Battery,
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            Ansaldo Energia on the Energy Dome technology,   owned by Energy Dome, is based on a thermodynamic
            which confirmed the TRL (Technology Readiness   cycle which, using carbon dioxide (CO ) as a working
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            Level), performance and costs, as well as its potential   fluid in a closed cycle and transforming it between its
            in the energy storage market. Ansaldo Energia thus   gaseous and liquid phases, allows an efficient and
            enters a strategic segment of the energy supply   economical energy storage, using only components
            chain: a crucial operation in the era of ecological   already available on the market from leading national
            transition and a fundamental step for guaranteeing   and international suppliers. The process involves a

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