Foundation
The future Zuccato Energia is founded as Enernova Srl by the Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Zuccato and the physicist Beniamino Benato.
The future Zuccato Energia is founded as Enernova Srl by the Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Zuccato and the physicist Beniamino Benato.
An intense R&D activity in the area of alternative power generation systems (e.g. Stirling engines and gasification) goes on for a few years.
Putting other technologies aside due to their poor efficiencies, Zuccato Energia concentrates its research on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems.
Zuccato Energia receives its first order: a plant with two ZE-50-ULH 50-kWE ORC modules for the Rottensteiner firm in Renon (near Bozen, South Tyrol)
Word of the efficiency and ease of use of the ULH-Series systems spreads: within one year of the first plant, other four plants get installed – the fifth at Veritas, the utility company serving Venice.
The success of Zuccato Energia ORC modules goes on unabated: within the years’end the 10th plant is installed, inauguration the new series of modules run by overheated water – the LT Series.
In the first months of the year, the first plant outside Italian territory is installed : it’s the Benneckenstein plant, in Germany, in the Saxony-Anhalt länder.
By mid-year Zuccato Energia commissions its fifteenth plant : it’s the 100-kWe genset heat recovery plant in Barnstorf, Lower Saxony (Germany).
Two plants for primary production from biomass are commissioned in two farms in Indiana (USA): one 175-kWe single-module plant and a 1-MWe plant based on two paired ZE-500-LT units.
At the beginning of the year the first Zuccato Energia module in Asia is installed – it’s the first heat recovery unit for the power generation plant of Heuksando Island, off the shore of South Korea.
The Zuccato Energia brand and the activities of design, manufacturing, and marketing of turbogenerators are acquired by Kajiwara Italia Srl, the Italian subsidiary of the Japanese company Kajiwara Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of environmental equipment.