Blog Energy Pool x Elevion Group: a Partnership for Energy Flexibility in Italy
Target sectors include steel, paper, healthcare, manufacturing, food & beverage, automotive, components, and complex tertiary environments — fields where the presence of flexible loads can quickly generate economic and environmental benefits, creating immediate value through integrated management models. “With Energy Pool, we enable Italian companies to access flexibility in a simple and measurable way: we transform energy efficiency into operational value and new income from grid services,” says Claudio Sanna, CEO of Elevion Italy.
“The collaboration with Elevion represents a strategic lever for the Italian C&I sector. It enables businesses to integrate efficiency, flexibility, and access to new electricity markets into a single operational model capable of optimising self-consumption and generating additional cash flows through active participation in energy and ancillary service markets. In this way, the energy transition becomes a real competitive advantage: measurable in results, scalable over time, and fully bankable,” states Paolo Quartulli, Country Manager of Energy Pool Italy. Energy Pool Italy operates as an optimiser through proprietary EMS platforms and as a BRP and BSP in energy and ancillary service markets, unlocking industrial flexibility through digital management and activation models supported by forecasting algorithms, remote control and multi-market optimisation logic. Elevion Group Italy provides its end-to-end platform for energy efficiency, renewables and digitalisation, with a widespread presence across the country and strong EPC/ESCo expertise.
Within this ecosystem, battery energy storage systems (BESS) play an enabling role: they make it possible to store energy, stabilise the grid and integrate renewables into the energy mix, offering balancing services and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Excess energy can be stored during surplus periods and released when demand rises or production falls, making networks more resilient, efficient and capable of meeting the needs of an increasingly distributed and digital energy system.
Italy’s energy transition is undergoing a phase of profound transformation, marked by a significant increase in installed renewable capacity and a progressive electrification of C&I consumption. In this context, market analyses indicate a rapidly growing demand for flexibility, alongside the evolution of energy and ancillary service markets towards higher liquidity, greater price variability and increased grid stress.
In this scenario, flexibility and energy efficiency become essential elements for dynamically balancing energy supply and demand, reducing waste and optimising the use of available resources through advanced digital technologies. For companies that adopt flexibility-oriented operational models early on, this may translate into a structural competitive advantage, derived both from process optimisation and from early access to remuneration mechanisms and market opportunities.
The progressive digitalisation of the energy system now enables companies to intelligently manage their energy assets, adapting consumption to grid conditions and obtaining financial returns through participation in flexibility services. This new paradigm creates concrete opportunities for competitiveness and sustainability in the Italian C&I sector: companies can transform energy management from a cost centre into a strategic lever, reducing energy OPEX through consumption optimisation, generating new revenue from grid services and flexibility markets, and contributing to measurable decarbonisation of their production processes.
At the same time, the dynamic management of loads and integration with digital control, monitoring and automation systems strengthen companies’ operational resilience, improving their ability to adapt to price fluctuations, energy availability or grid conditions, and making the production system more efficient, flexible and competitive.