{"id":468,"date":"2019-06-26T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ippo-engineering.eu\/blue-technology-and-renewable-energies\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:02:50","slug":"blue-technology-and-renewable-energies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ippo-engineering.eu\/en\/blue-technology-and-renewable-energies\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE TECHNOLOGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Since 2004 IPPO Engineering deals with software for environmental technologies, blue technology (or blue economy<\/strong>), renewable energy and energy efficiency. The implementation of these innovative digital technologies concerns the design of sensors capable of improving the conditions of the marine ecosystem, but not only. Robotics, virtual reality and augmented reality<\/a>\u00a0can also be integrated to improve the performance of maritime trade.<\/p>

The world of renewable energy is constantly growing, and evolving, and is increasingly opening up to new scopes. Blue energy is clean electrical energy deriving from waves, sea currents and tides, in response to climate change to which nature is subjected. The use of this type of energy, as well as other renewable energy sources, ensures a lower environmental impact thanks to the exploitation of natural renewable resources for the production of electricity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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WHAT IS BLUE TECHNOLOGY?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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To better understand what blue technology is, we should start by explaining the importance of this new sector, characterised by a high degree of technological complexity and high costs of realisation. Ocean energy has always been available to man, but for various reasons, including those mentioned above, its exploitation was not so rapid. If these obstacles will be overcome, it will be easier to make the blue economy usable to all. It will be possible to exploit the swell of the sea and the differences in temperature and salinity, with important implications in the environmental and economic fields.<\/p>

In a Transparency Market Research Report, dating back to 2016, the global value of blue energy was calculated at around $ 11 billion by 2024, with an estimated annual growth rate of 23.3% between 2016 and 2024.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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THE EUROPEAN UNION ENCOURAGES BLUE TECHNOLOGY<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It should not be surprising that the European Union has decided to dedicate part of its resources to this sector, to support the technological development necessary for the reduction of greenhouse gases and for the creation of new jobs. The economic advantage deriving from the adoption of blue technology, in fact, should not be underestimated.<\/p>

The European Union funds the “Pelagos Blue energy cluster” platform for the Mediterranean, to which Italy is part. The Italian network consists of small and medium enterprises, utilities, electricity companies and public and private research centres.<\/p>

The European Commission issued a communication, titled \u201cBlue Growth\u201d, to plan a sustainable growth in the marine and maritime at European level. The objectives to be achieved through this communication can be summarised in three points:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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