ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND CLEAN ENERGY-EFFICIENT VEHICLES: The case of Emilia-Romagna Region

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1 ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND CLEAN ENERGY-EFFICIENT VEHICLES: The case of Emilia-Romagna Region Event: Civitas Forum Date: November 10 th 2008 Location: Bologna (Italy) Speaker, Organization: Ing. Fabio Formentin, Manager of Mobility and Public Transport Department of Emilia-Romagna Region

2 General information Emilia-Romagna is one of the most extended regions of Italy ( Km 2 ). It is limited by the Adriatic, the Apennines and Po. Borders on Lombardy and Veneto (north), Liguria and Piedmont (west), Tuscany and Marche (south), the Adriatic Sea (east). Between Romagna and Marche the little independent Republic of San Marino is located. The conformation of the Region is divided in two completely different sections from each other: the first one, situated in the southern part of the Region, is all mountainous and hilly; the second, the northern one is all level.

3 Main actions for sustainable mobility Air quality agreements In co-operation with the regional Environment Department, in 2008 RER has promoted and implemented the 7 th Agreement on air quality among all cities in the region above 50,000 inhabitants. The agreement sets a framework of requisites for fossil fuelled vehicles in order to grant them access to protected areas of the town. Depending on the levels of pollution and meteorological forecast, local authorities might suspend the traffic circulation of the most pollutant vehicles. These traffic restrictions have been accompanied by regional incentives to support fuel shift from petrol to CNG for private cars and to foster sustainable urban mobility projects put forward by local authorities. In order to reduce traffic air pollution, the regional government allocates incentives to local public transport (LPT) either by contributing to the bus fleet renewal or supporting researches and agreements. For this purpose, the regional mobility and public transport Department works together with national research institutes, such as Enea, Cnr, Arpa, with the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, with other local authorities, with other local mobility agencies and with LTP regional companies.

4 Main actions for sustainable mobility Agreement with the Po Areas s Regions In 2007 the RER signed an agreement among the Regions of the Po Areas (Piemont, Lombardy and Veneto) and the Province Independent of Trento and Bolzano, Valle d Aosta and the Canton Ticino. This document deals with a general agreement of prevention and reduction of air pollution and foresees the building of an interregional technical group in order to tackle air pollution on Po area scale and the elaboration of common initiatives.

5 Regional Bus Fleet 1/ Autobus Filobus The regional fleet is composed by buses The number of the vehicles is stable The middle age is increasing 2700 are diesel 267 are CNG 60,0% 50,0% 40,0% 51,5% 14,8 13,8 47,0% 40,7% 12,3 34,8% 10,9 9,0 % mezzi >15 anni età media parco 9,6 9,9 16,0 14,0 12,0 10,0 57 LPG 107 Hybrids 30,0% 20,0% 26,3% 25,2% 22,8% 8,0 6,0 33 electric 10,0% 4,0 2,0 129 trolley 0,0% ,0

6 Regional bus fleet 2/3 100,0% gasolio metano elettrica ibrido GPL The fleet is composed by diesel, CNG, GPL and Hybrid 90,0% 80,0% 70,0% 60,0% 85% 79% 74% 70% 68% 63% 60% urban diesel fleet is decreasing 40,0% 30,0% % 50,0% Alternative fuels are increasing Antiparticulate filter RER co financed with filters will be installed 20,0% 10,0% 0,0% 2% 11% % 0% Piacenza 18% 16% 12% 11% 11% 10% 11% 11% 11% 12% 8% 5% 5% 5% 6% 6% 6% 6% 3% 3% 4% 4% 4% 0% Parma Anni Reggio dell'emilia Modena Bologna Ferrara Ravenna Forlì- Cesena Gasolio FAP Rimini

7 Regional bus fleet 3/3 The last buses orders ( ) carried out by pubblic transport companies feature more than 50% low impact vehicles, particularly thanks to fuel shift to natural gas made by the major transport companies in the 13 towns with a population of more than 50 thousands residents; RER contributed with , new buses The new buses order 2009: Regional criteria The Region with national and regional funds finances at most the 70% of the cost vehicles The 70% of the vehicles cost is assigned to the less pollutant buses While national regulations foresee a mandatory percentage of 5% of low impact vehicles to be purchased in each procurement batch, since 2002 onwards Emilia-Romagna s regional Government has raised this threashold to at least 20% for each order of new vehicles.

8 European Projects. COMPRO ( ) - Partners: Nantes, Brema, Goteborg - Aims: to realize a common procurement of buses - At moment: the project is focusing on Hybrid and CNG technologies. CIVITA MIMOSA ( ) - Partners: Bologna, Tallin, Utrecht, Funchal, Gdansk - Aims: To organize a series of demonstration activities that show the benefits deriving from the adoption sustainable Mobility actions; - At moment: the project is still started. MHYBUS ( ) - Partners ENEA, ASTR, ATM - Aims: prototype of idromethane bus - Al momento: the project will star on 2009

9 Alternative fuels idrometano project 1/3. Fuel consumption (private sector) Carburante erogato per tipo (com preso autostrade) (trend , L/1000) L/1000 Migliaia BENZINA SUPER L/1000 BENZINA SENZA PIOMBO L/1000 GASOLIO L/1000 GPL L/1000 METANO MC/1000

10 . Alternative fuels idrometano project 2/3 Fuel consumption (public sector) Energetic fuel consumption of LPT (1000/L) Thousand Energetic fuel consumption of LPT (m 3 ) 5 Milions CNG Milions Diesel LPG Energetic fuel consumption of LPT (Kwh) Electric

11 Alternative fuels idrometano project 3/3 IDROMETANO PROJECT Objective regards the use of the mixture of methane (CNG) and hydrogen (5% up to 20%); The project want to demonstrate that the mixture pollutes less then the simple natural gas; Promotion of the hydrogen energy vector through an already consolidated technology (CNG); RER financied the purchase of two buses (ATR and ATM are public transport company) to realise the test with 5% and 20% of hydrogen; The results will be available by the end of the year

12 Thank you Emilia-Romagna Region Contact: Ing. Fabio Formentin Manager of Urban Mobility Department