With 4 million 250 thousand kilowatt hours of average annual consumption, the Matitone, an iconic Genoese building, is an example of an energy-intensive building. On its 24 floors (23 occupied by municipal offices), work is underway to reduce energy costs. The City of Genoa has obtained funding from the EU to revolutionize its lighting and heating-cooling system, based on a project by multiutility Iren. Cutting building consumption is one of the big goals of the National Energy and Climate Plan. The other is to increase, by a lot, the use of renewable sources. The Plan wants to reach, in 2030, 20,000 megawatt hours of wind farms and 52,000 of photovoltaic …