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Value for territories and communities

Creating value for the territory in which we operate means developing shared solutions with relevant stakeholders, promoting socioeconomic innovation, stimulating local entrepreneurship, fostering employment, activating virtuous co-design paths with both public and private territorial stakeholders, and supporting local culture and excellence.

Our presence and that of our network across the Italian territory is wide and varied. Thanks to a complex and widespread framework, we have built a strong territorial bond over time, characterized by solid and continually strengthened relationships with the communities. Another important interlocutor in the territories is represented by the network of the Confindustria association world. We are members of 31 territorial associations of Confindustria across 19 regions, with which we maintain a constant dialogue to define collaboration paths and participate in working groups on topics such as energy transition and innovation.

Generating value for the territory also means collaborating with it and supporting local culture and excellence. Examples of this corporate philosophy include our long-standing partnerships with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the FAI – Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano. Additionally, we have always built strong relationships and established constructive dialogues with local institutions and communities, with a collaborative approach that is particularly important when implementing new plants or making interventions on existing ones. Finally, we are particularly attentive to the communities where we operate, with numerous specific projects currently underway or already completed, involving local schools in these territories.

Initiatives for hydroelectric territories

SPORTS INITIATIVES

Cycling events

In the territories of Mazarese and Alto Vastese (CH), where it is present with wind farms: two non-competitive cycling events with the aim of enhancing the sheep tracks and cycle paths around the plants.

SPORTS INITIATIVES

Mountain running

In Meduno (PN) where it is present with hydroelectric plants: World Masters Mountain Running Championships.

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SOCIO-CULTURAL INITIATIVES

"La Grande Arte in Brianza”

In the province of Monza Brianza, where it is present with its historic hydroelectric plants: for the third consecutive year, main sponsor of the “La Grande Arte in Brianza” project. In Carate Brianza, Titian’s painting “Venus Blindfolding Cupid” was exhibited free of charge with about 25,000 visitors from the area (including 81 primary and secondary classes and over 1,500 students involved), accompanied by a competition for Lombardy schools linked to the themes of the exhibition.

SOCIO-CULTURAL INITIATIVES

Support for the third sector

In the province of Sondrio, in Valcamonica, and in Valcaffaro, where we operate several hydroelectric plants, the recurring “Costruiamo il Futuro” call for proposals continues, targeting third‑sector organisations (sports, social, cultural and environmental). Since 2020, the initiative has allocated approximately €400,000 to more than 230 organisations in the Province of Sondrio, and since 2023 approximately €150,000 to more than 90 organisations in the Val Camonica and Val Caffaro areas.

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES

Campiello Prize

Edison Energia’s support for the Campiello Prize: creating social and cultural value by promoting initiatives that enrich local communities and people.

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES

Intercultura Association

Scholarships for annual and semester‑long study‑abroad programmes are awarded to students residing in the areas where we operate our production facilities, through the Intercultura Association.

Progetto Scuola

With Edison Next, we have developed and launched a model to evolve schools by transforming school buildings from closed and underused spaces into innovative, safe, and multifunctional centers, also open to families and the community, capable of meeting the new needs of the modern family model. To achieve this goal, we plan to extend the opening hours of school buildings, maximizing their use, and implement infrastructure interventions, such as the renovation and creation of educational, sports, and multifunctional spaces, along with energy efficiency measures, such as the installation of photovoltaic systems to be integrated with the development of Renewable Energy Communities.

Aerial view of a children's drawing table

Energy education in schools

Awareness-raising and training activities on energy issues for young people of school age, also with a focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) skills that are strongly linked to employability in the professions of the future. Overall, considering the initiatives in the territories and those described below, the Company estimates to have involved over 3,000 students in Italy in 2025.

Edison School: currently aimed at second-level secondary school students, the educational and orientation programme on the energy professions consists of activities in person and on a digital platform with the certification of hours of PTCO - Pathway for Transversal Skills and Orientation. There are more than 240 schools affiliated in 20 Italian regions as of 2025. In addition, educational visits were organised at Edison plants throughout Italy, involving more than 20 classes for a total of more than 400 students.
Scuola dei Mestieri dell’Energia: designed and implemented together with Aforisma School of Management, the initiative is dedicated to the development of alternating school-work skills and the creation of subsequent employment opportunities for young people aged 14 to 29 in Puglia. In 2025, the training offer was enriched with a new edition of the IFTS course for Senior Technician for the installation and maintenance of energy systems and with the start of the fourth year for obtaining the Diploma in installation and maintenance.
Project DaVinci 4.0 GdB: promoted by Gruppo Editoriale Bresciana, it involved 100 students from 9 high schools in the province of Brescia with the aim of transmitting digital culture and creating skills useful for the world of work and Project Montagna 4.0 FUTURe ALPS, involving students, operators, entrepreneurs and institutions of the Italian Alpine arc – Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Lombardy, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia – in a course aimed at transmitting transversal skills to students.
Participation in initiatives to promote women’s empowerment, including: “Deploy your talent” with Fondazione Sodalitas, “Girls in STEM” with the France-Italy Chamber of Commerce, “School/Enterprise System” with Elis and Valore D, “HackHer_” with the association Bridge The Gap, for the promotion of technical-scientific disciplines, and YEP orientation programme with Ortygia Foundation.
Partnership network with ITS Academy Foundations: during 2025, the collaboration with the ITS Academy world continued, in particular with ITS Green Energy (Vimercate) and ITS Angelo Rizzoli (Milan). Specifically, Edison hosted an orientation day for the study courses promoted by ITS Green and designed and delivered a course in Project Management and contributed to some lectures in the field of cyber security, as well as having participated in the respective Career Days with the addition of ITS ICT Piemonte.

Participation in initiatives to raise awareness of the energy transition: in partnership “School4Life Project” with Elis for orientation and training in the energy trades of the future, “Bella Family Project” dedicated to students, in addition to adherence to the memorandum of understanding with Legambiente Green Energy Revolution for the promotion of training courses and orientation in the renewable energy sector.

Fighting energy poverty

We are actively involved in combating energy poverty among households and consumers in general, and in 2025 the Group reached its target of 15 initiatives implemented in Italy. In 2025 the “Energy in the suburbs” project, an initiative promoted by the Banco dell’Energia Foundation to support families in situations of energy poverty living in urban suburbs and small municipalities, continued. In addition to immediate financial support, through the payment of bills and the purchase of new appliances, the project also provided an education course on the use of energy through the Domestic Energy Tutors, volunteers trained on the issues of responsible consumption.

Another lever for combating energy poverty is the Solidarity Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) created for solidarity purposes for the benefit of third sector entities. In 2025, again with Banco dell’Energia, the project ”Sustainable energy for young people”, which involves Banco dell’Energia, Edison and the Salesian Opera Borgo Ragazzi Don Bosco in Rome, provided for the installation of two photovoltaic systems of 200 kWp in total for the day centre and for the Vocational Training Centre, which will contribute to a significant reduction in energy expenditure.

In 2025, the first renewable energy community with a social impact was also launched, promoted by the EOS Foundation, as part of the Urban Trajectories project in Palermo. The intervention, which provides for the installation of photovoltaic systems for 320 MWh/year, will reduce the energy costs of the city associations involved and generate incentives (estimated at 40,000 euros per year) to be reinvested in socio-cultural activities in favour of the neighbourhoods, with a 20-year horizon. In addition, an 85 kW plant has been designed in Turin, whose incentives will support the “Life paths for adolescents” project together with the OZ Foundation from 2026.

Initiatives to combat energy poverty also include the “Oasis” project, the first cooling centre in Italy promoted by the South Milan Area Committee of the Italian Red Cross, with Banco dell’Energia and Edison in the Opera district of Milan. The project first saw the installation of a cooling system to transform the facility into a relief centre for the elderly and vulnerable during heat waves; Edison then installed a 23 kW photovoltaic system, covering 50% of the centre’s consumption. In total, more than 500 people benefited from the refrigerated space and the healthcare shuttle service.

Collective self-consumption

In 2021, Edison Energia launched an innovative energy-sharing model for condominiums with the aim of promoting self-production and the use of energy from renewable sources. Specifically, residents in condominium buildings can join collective self-consumption (CSC) groups, with the installation of a photovoltaic system on the roof of the condominium and the pooling of a series of benefits: environmental, with the reduction of CO2 emissions, social and economic thanks to state incentives. To date, 88 configurations of Collective Condominium Self-Consumption and RECs have been contracted with approximately 2,000 members. Among the initiatives aimed at promoting collective self-consumption of energy, in 2025 Edison Energia signed a collaboration protocol with Legacoop Abitanti, an association that brings together more than 10,000 cooperative companies, active throughout the Country and in all sectors. Thanks to this agreement, several initiatives have been launched, including a pilot project involving six condominiums located in the province of Reggio Emilia with the installation of 341 kWp of photovoltaic panels, and a new condominium energy community with 20 member families inaugurated in Sordina (Salerno). In order to provide subsidised financing support to end customers interested in promoting solutions such as those described above, Edison Energia carried out targeted scouting of more than 30 National, Regional and Local Calls for Proposals relating to the energy transition (PNRR) during 2025, integrating them into its operating model.

photovoltaic roof panels residential complex