The worldwide economic crisis started in 2007 has involved almost every production sector and has had a higher impact on companies that were located in particular areas, such the mountainous ones, and on those activities that involved quite an obsolete process and technology.
Searching new solution for saving the activity could also consider a total change for the company and its transformation to an energy generator plant, which would use local biomass to produce electric energy and hot water. This kind of intervention can be a good opportunity, especially if also public incentive is available.
This research starts from a previous one, which considers such a situation for a company located in Carnia (Italy northeast) and verifies the solutions found, considering the variation of the public incentives.
The old solutions are no more effective, due to the lack of incentive for the electric energy generation, but the improvement of the thermal section of the proposed plant reveals still an economic advantage and an important impact to the reduction of CO2 emissions.
