Foundation
The future Zuccato Energy is founded as Enernova Srl by the Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Zuccato and the
physicist Beniamino Benato.
The future Zuccato Energy 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 Energy concentrates its
research on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems.
Zuccato Energy 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 Energy 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 Energy 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 Energy 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.
Zuccato Energia’s worldwide success has given rise to the establishment Zuccato Energy, Inc. in the United States.
In collaboration with the Entrepreneur Russel Mollica, operations are based in New Jersey, USA.