Boniotti (Medener): ‘We support agencies of member countries on energy efficiency and renewables’

Hammamet – “MeetMed, a joint project of MEDENER and RCREEE, is funded by the European Union but managed by MEDENER, which I represent as secretary general, and whose chair is represented by Enea and its director general, Giorgio Graditi. RCREEE, on the other hand, is the technical arm organization in the energy sphere of the League of Arab States,” said the secretary general of the Mediterranean Association of National Energy Management Agencies, Roberta Boniotti, during this week’s MeetMed Week in Hammamet, Tunisia, organized by MEDENER. “We have been working together for many years. This is the sixth year” of working on the MeetMed project, and “our focus at the moment is to support the member countries of our energy efficiency and renewables agencies.” In the second phase of the project, “we focused on the buildings sector, which is one of the most important sectors in terms of energy efficiency because it is one of the most energy-consuming sectors.”

“To implement energy efficiency, it is necessary to strengthen policies and strategies. Training is necessary, and to do demonstrative actions, and, more importantly, try to put together business models to finance these actions,” Boniotti further stressed, “These are the main results we are achieving. They vary from country to country because some have very different economies.” That is why “we are trying to build, and have already succeeded in part, a large network of experts working on these issues and collaborating by building a framework for the Mediterranean.”

MeetMed “is a typical example of dialogue, of cooperation, of interests between southern countries with northern countries,” Boniotti highlighted. “There are certain tensions, especially now, but we see that with our cooperation, with the support between the agencies of the North and the South, all this leads to peace, to shared interests, to energy choices that can be a win-win situation for all our countries.” Italy is also on the platform, “among other things Enea has the chairmanship of MEDENER, the president is the director general of Enea, Engineer Graditi.” In addition, “we also have the Mediterranean regulators, so you can see in this framework that among the Mediterranean energy platforms, Italy has a preeminent role in all the platforms.It is recognized both geographically and, more importantly, at the cultural level because of our past positioning and the overall situation.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv4kymrMV_s