Marco Calderoni assumes the role of the new Chair of the RHC-ETIP
The mandate of the new president of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling started on the 1st January 2024 and will run until the end of the year.
Graduated in 2003 in Mechanical Engineering with expertise in energy at Politecnico di Milano, Marco Calderoni has been working as a researcher ever since 2003. He has always been committed to the sector of renewable energies, in particular thermal renewables. Since 2012 he has also been involved in district heating, as an ideal energy vector for the collection of locally available renewable sources. He has also enlarged his knowledge with projects related to heat pumps, both electricity and heat-driven. Currently he works as Senior Project Manager at Research to Market Solution, and he is also Chairman of the Solar thermal Technology Panel of the RHC-ETIP.
It is a pleasure to chair again RHC ETIP. The decision of having every Technology Panel of the ETIP lead the platform for a period and then handing over to the next Panel ensures all our technologies are well represented and enables every chairman to bring new ideas and methodologies.
My aim in 2024, three years after my previous chairmanship, is to further explore with the board and the secretariat opportunities for RHC technologies in the growing domain of sector coupling, where thermal energy storage plays a very important role. The challenge is to understand to what extent RHC-connected storages - even small scale ones - can be exploited via smart aggregation.
