Prof. Emanuele Martelli’s team wins the Eni Award for Innovation 2025 in the Digital category
The research project “An innovative Multi-Energy Systems design and optimization tool for evaluating decarbonization opportunities”, the result of a collaboration between researchers from Eni and Plenitude (S. Sala, A. Amendola, G. Gioco, M. Primato, T. Audino, M. Di Marco) and the team coordinated by Prof. Emanuele Martelli (Vincenzo Dipierro, Lorenzo Pilotti, Andrea Zelaschi, Alessandro F. Castelli) from the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano, has won the Eni Award for Innovation 2025 in the Digital category.
The award was presented on October 8 by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, during the official ceremony held at the Quirinale Palace.
In the project, the optimization code MY-AESOPT, developed by Prof. Martelli’s team for the decarbonization of energy districts within the PRIN 2022 ECCO 2050 project, was customized to meet Eni’s needs — giving rise to the MESOPT tool, which Eni further developed independently — and successfully applied to the design of hybrid plants integrating renewable sources and energy storage systems, which are strategic for Eni and Eni Plenitude.
“MY-AESOPT (as well as Eni’s customized version, MES-OPT) enables the identification of the optimal evolution of the energy mix, the configuration of the aggregated system (e.g., a microgrid), and the planning of future investments required to achieve carbon neutrality at minimum cost for both civil and industrial plants. Given its usefulness in identifying optimal decarbonization solutions for industrial assets and in designing microgrids, MY-AESOPT has been made available to several multinational companies. I would like to sincerely thank the PhD students and postdocs who contributed to the development of MY-AESOPT, and Eni for this recognition”
