The ENEA focus in the FIAIP-ICom Report, which analyses real estate market trends based on surveys of member real estate agents, shows that in 2025, appreciation for the energy efficiency of properties in Italy grew, despite the fact that approximately 75% of residential buildings remain obsolete and inefficient.

The ENEA new Technical-Scientific Council (CTS), composed of four external members selected by a committee from among 69 candidates and two internal members elected by their fellow researchers and technologist, has taken office.

Chaired by ENEA President Francesca Mariotti to ensure a unified approach, the CTS provides strategic and advisory support for the Agency’s technical and scientific activities.

A research team including ENEA has successfully tested two advanced laser technologies at the Joint European Torus (JET), one of the largest experimental nuclear fusion reactors. The goal was to remotely monitor plasma-exposed materials in real time and quantify the fuel (deuterium and tritium) in situ, ensuring the safety and efficiency of future plants.

ENEA has built a pilot plant at the Casaccia Research Center (Rome) for deblending hydrogen from methane mixtures using membrane technology. Housed in a container, this prototype for deblending is one of the innovative units to be integrated into the Hydrogen Demo Valley, currently under construction at the research center as part of Mission Innovation, the international cooperation program to accelerate innovation in decarbonization technologies.

On the occasion of Italian Research Day Around the World, President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella met at the Quirinale with the Council of Presidents of Public Research Bodies (CoPER), including ENEA President Francesca Mariotti. The meeting with the delegation, led by Minister of Universities and Research Anna Maria Bernini, highlighted the role of scientific research in shaping the country’s future.

Significant progress has been achieved in the field of high-intensity laser–matter interaction and inertial confinement fusion. At the National Ignition Facility (NIF)—the world’s largest laser facility, located in the United States and historically dedicated to inertial confinement fusion—a joint Italian-German research team involving ENEA, University of Frankfurt and the GSI Research Center in Darmstadt has demonstrated, for the first time, up to a tenfold increase in the efficiency of producing relativistic electrons and gamma photons in the MeV energy range, compared with previous laser–matter interaction experiments. This result was achieved using innovative micro-structured porous materials (foams).