Assocarboni

Via Parigi, 11
IT-00100 Roma
ITALY
Tel: +39 02 89546855 Fax: +39 02 89546847
Website: www.assocarboni.it

Main Contact
   Rinaldo SORGENTI, Board Director
   Email: r.sorgenti[at]ius-sitris.it

Other Contacts
   Francesca DE GASPARI, Secretary
   Email: assocarboni[at]tiscalinet.it

Year of Creation: 1897

No of Staff: 4

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In-house Funding: 100%

Assocarboni is a non-profit body and its primary goal is promoting the image and consumption of solid fuels in Italy.

Assocarboni includes about 80 companies employing about 5000 people.

These companies are producers, importers, agents of foreign companies of the sector, traders, electric energy producers, cement factories, steel plants, shipping and forwarding agents, brokers, terminal companies, surveyors, engineering companies, builder of plants for coal handling and use. Assocarboni takes part into the board of directors of Fuel Experimental Station and is a representative of sub-commission for fuels at Ministry of Industry, Trade and Handicraft.

Assocarboni aims to revise the Italian "FUEL MIX" for electricity production and increase the contribution from coal to the same average level of the EU-15 Members States. Support the Government and Public Insitutions to evaluate and establish appropriate Rules and Laws in relation to the Energy Sector in Italy.

Areas of expertise: Changing citizens' behaviour, dissemination of information, advice on specific energy issues, promotion of technology (Clean Coal Technology - CCT).

Assocarboni believes it is necessary to change citizens' behaviour and rectify the unjustified "negative image" that has been built around coal usage in Italy, which is totally discriminatory in comparison to other fossil fuels sources. As an example: by law, coal could not be used in a large and modern power plant (fully equipped with de-SOx and de-NOx), while the same plant is allowed to burn fuel oil up to 3% sulphur and, even worse, Orimulsion with a nominal "tel-quel" 3% sulphur content, which becomes 4.62% on the "combustible matter" (dry basis). The Association believes that the "Carbon Tax" in force is another example of unacceptable discrimination because, at full regime, it will tax the CO₂ from coal 4 times more than the same CO₂ molecules emitted from natural gas.

Target audience: Government, Public Insitutions, Members of Parliament, Industry Energy Sector's Operators and the Public in general.

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