Our core values are to develop innovative projects that speed up and smooth the path to energy transition, creating value for customers, partners and communities.
As a Società Benefit – the Italian form of a benefit corporation – INTEGRA responds to a for-profit economic model that includes a strong focus on the greater good to be achieved in a sustainable, responsible and transparent way.
The myriad of bureaucratic and administrative hoops to jump through for all the necessary permits remains one of the biggest obstacles to constructing renewable energy plants, despite the strong market demand and the real need to develop these resources.
At INTEGRA, we can handle these complexities because we are perfectly familiar with all the paperwork involved at the various authorisation levels and we actively engage the communities concerned right from the project planning stages. This way they will not experience renewable energy plants as an imposition forced on them by bureaucrats from afar but rather as an opportunity for social and economic development and job creation.
The construction and management phases that follow benefit from the expertise of our partners and their companies, which cover the entire chain from engineering to financing to integrated logistics, all the while keeping the most delicate phase of procurement and construction under control, at competitive costs.
The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP – Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza) is developed around three strategic axes shared at a European level: digitisation and innovation, ecological transition, and social inclusion, and it gives large and small companies the perfect opportunity to secure funding for their projects. However, the procedures for obtaining these resources are quite complex and take into account a number of factors, most notably the quality of the applicants and the projects submitted.
With this in mind, INTEGRA joins forces with public and private operators as a partner in the development of major, key ecological transition projects, with a focus on replacing fossil fuels with innovative fuels such as green hydrogen and methanol, especially in the shipping, port and logistics sectors, which are notoriously “hard to abate”.
INTEGRA can also support companies in the process of analysing, evaluating and preparing the conditions required to tap into the resources allocated under the NRRP.
The resources are mainly earmarked for small enterprises, which represent about 80% of Italy’s economic and business market. INTEGRA could also use replicable business models to unite these firms.
INTEGRA’s four partners and co-founders have gained entrepreneurial and managerial expertise in leading companies across different but complementary sectors and they bring their solid capacity for analysis, development, design and operation to the table.
Luca Bergonzoli
Managing Partner
Alessandro Laghezza
Partner
Sergio Ungaro
Partner
Luigi Spedini
Partner
Luca Bergonzoli is a manager with expertise in the environment and renewables industry. He graduated in Economics from the University of Parma, and has held key positions in leading Italian and international companies, building cross-sector experience, special relations with investors and stakeholders, and project skills.
He has a wide and flexible range of competences, with a specific focus on origination projects for new permits to build renewable energy plants, develop wind farms, and set up local branches for national and foreign investors. It is important to involve the social and economic fabric of the communities concerned in every project to make them an integral part of the process and help create shared value.
Alessandro Laghezza is the Owner and CEO of Laghezza SpA, an independent company and one of Italy’s market leaders in the customs and logistics fields. The Laghezza SpA Customs Business Unit represents the company’s core business and delivers strategic customs advisory and support services at all the main logistics hubs in Italy. Its Logistics Business Unit provides complete solutions and value added services for all kinds of goods, also assuring an excellent road transport service. Alessandro Laghezza has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Pisa, and holds the titles of Chartered Accountant, Auditor, Customs Officer and Maritime Agent. His business activity is flanked by an important institutional commitment and he holds positions with leading national associations.
Sergio Ungaro commenced his professional career at Citibank, progressively taking up important positions in Corporate and Investment Banking in Italy and abroad. From 1992 to 2001, he was Italy country manager for Citigroup. In 2002, he set up his own practice as a corporate finance advisor to major industrial groups. From 2002 to 2006, he collaborated with KPMG Advisory Services as senior advisor in the Finance practice and then as senior advisor of the U.S. investment fund, Silver Point. He has also been a member of the boards of CitiInvest, Coeclerici, Fiamm, Fondazione Dynamo, and S.P.E. Bank (Budapest) and was chairman of Anthilia SGR. He holds a degree in law from the University di Bologna with post-graduate studies in international relations at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a board member of unlisted services companies, SNAI and Falck Renewables.
Luigi Spedini has been involved in alternative energies since the 1970s and is a forerunner of ground-breaking inventions and entrepreneurial projects in the field of renewables.
In 1975, he registered the first designated patent for biogas generating systems, in collaboration with ENEA and the Universities of Milan and Bologna. In those same years, he also embarked on his entrepreneurial activity, which transformed his original inventions - developed in collaboration with a team of qualified engineers - into companies operating in the field of renewable energy production. Over the last 25 years, his business experience has also focused on photovoltaic systems, and since 2008 he has chaired SB Solar, a company specialising in the production of advanced supports for PV panels.
