Industrial Demand for Cleantech: Powering the Clean Industrial Deal

Europe is entering a decisive phase for industrial competitiveness. The Clean Industrial Deal and the reform of EU economic governance require a step-change in collaboration between innovators developing next-generation technologies, industrial champions whose adoption decisions shape value chains, and public institutions designing market-making instruments.
Today, the primary bottleneck is not the lack of technologies, but the lack of structured, reliable industrial demand and risk-sharing mechanisms that allow these technologies to scale. Italy, thanks to its manufacturing depth, strong utilities, and engineering base, can become a European hub for industrial deployment of strategic cleantech technologies.

This event aims to equip stakeholders with tangible recommendations. Key objectives are:
•    Demonstrate how structured industrial demand accelerates deployment across clean fuels, industrial heat, and firm clean power.
•    Identify the barriers that innovators and corporates face in contracting, bankability, permitting, and risk allocation.
•    Propose partnership models (offtake, joint demonstration, EPC integration, long-duration procurement commitments) aligned with EU policy instruments.
•    Provide input to the Clean Industrial Deal and the Italian industrial strategy, positioning Italy as a key actor in shaping supply-demand ecosystems.

This event is designed to translate Europe’s Clean Industrial Deal into concrete partnerships between innovators and large industrial actors. Its structure follows the full arc of the challenge: an institutional keynote to frame Italy’s role in shaping industrial demand for cleantech, two focused panels that bring together technology frontrunners and major corporates to unpack how supply–demand relationships can be made bankable, and closing remarks distilling cross-cutting recommendations.
Each session examines a different segment of the value chain - clean fuels and industrial heat on one side, firm clean power and long-duration storage on the other - to identify where demand signals, risk-sharing mechanisms, and procurement frameworks can accelerate deployment. The format ensures actionable outputs aligned with EU policy debates and positions Italy’s industrial ecosystem as a key enabler of Europe’s next wave of clean manufacturing.