Gas Distribution: How Digital Innovation Enables the Circular Economy
The gas distribution sector in Italy is undergoing a profound transformation. The growing focus on operational efficiency, network loss reduction, and the energy transition is pushing companies to rethink their management models. Driving this change are market liberalization, European regulations, and the urgent need to contribute to decarbonization goals.
In this context, digital technologies serve as a strategic enabler to implement circular economy principles, reduce waste, and improve process sustainability.
Solutions based on IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data make it possible to:
Improve leak detection and predictive maintenance
Optimize energy demand planning
Automate processes across the entire distribution network
The implementation of remote control systems, GIS platforms, and smart metering allows utilities to reduce waste, increase service reliability, and respond more effectively to demand peaks.
Engineering’s Neta application suite concretely supports the sector’s strategic trends, contributing to the creation of a circular and digitalized value chain:
Decentralized Energy Production: Neta solutions facilitate the integration of distributed renewable sources (solar, wind, biomethane), helping to build more flexible and resilient networks.
Demand Response and Grid Flexibility: Intelligent monitoring and balancing systems help reduce energy waste and optimize supply-demand equilibrium.
Network Efficiency and Predictive Maintenance: Through data analysis and predictive modeling, it’s possible to minimize network losses and improve asset management.
Neta’s Billing module enhances administrative efficiency and supports more conscious and sustainable consumption models.
Billing automation: fewer errors, less paper, fewer wasted resources
Accurate billing: less unbilled energy, fewer adjustments and waste
Informed consumption: encourages responsible behavior from end users
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The NetaSIAL ERP system, applied to the gas sector, enables efficient and sustainable management of company resources:
Green Procurement: optimized and sustainable purchasing
Smart Inventory Management: waste reduction and material reuse
ESG Accounting & Reporting: document automation and reduced paper use
Circular Asset Management: valorization and reuse of corporate assets
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Digitalization and process automation are key levers in making gas distribution more sustainable.
Engineering’s Neta solutions provide concrete tools to reduce environmental impact, optimize operational efficiency, and support the evolution towards a circular economy model in the energy sector.