Bologna’s Guglielmo Marconi Airport is one of the largest airports in Italy in terms of the number of international destinations served, with a runway capable of accommodating flights with a range of up to 5,000 nautical miles and with state-of-the-art technological equipment for safety and environmental protection; It serves a traffic basin of ten million people with a clear mission: “To promote the international connectivity of people and businesses, through the development and management of a structure that aims for excellence in quality and safety”.

In 2014, Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna S.p.A. carried out a complete redevelopment of the internal lighting of the Pax Terminal, replacing the old light sources, mainly fluorescent and metal halide, with LED sources equipped with electronic ballasts that allow dimming. This solution is particularly effective and impactful in terms of energy saving, as the structure is open to the public 24 hours a day for all 365 days of the year and the internal lighting must be guaranteed continuously.

The need for the Airport is to contact an Energy Service Company (ESCo) – UNI CEI 11352:2014 certified and enabled to access the “Energy Efficiency” computer application – which submits a formal request to a third-party body in charge to certify and quantify its savings efforts.
CPL CONCORDIA, as a certified ESCo and having certified EGEs, therefore carried out all the activities of presentation and certification of the primary energy savings (TOE) resulting from the redevelopment of the Terminal’s lighting system.

The benefits achievable by the company are energy, environmental and economic with the annual energy savings of approximately 1,500,000 kWhe/year, 450 tonnes of oil equivalent And the 490 tCO2 emissions into the atmosphere. The certification of savings allows the Airport to access the White Certificates and see their efforts in reducing their energy impact financially supported. The Airport is thus able to certify energy savings, as required by its Energy Management System and Energy Policy.