RINA is a global corporation that provides engineering and consultancy services, as well as testing, inspection and certification across the Energy, Marine, Certification, Transport & Infrastructure and Industry sectors through a global network of 170 offices in 65 countries.

Regarding Governance, RINA consists of the Holding Company RINA S.p.A. that controls and coordinates the two main operational companies, RINA Services S.p.A. and RINA Consulting S.p.A.

RINA will be mainly involved in the project through its operating company RINA Consulting S.p.A.. As the engineering consultancy division of RINA, RINA Consulting S.p.A. provides a wide range of services covering the whole project life cycle from feasibility and specialized technical studies to conceptual and detailed design, prototyping and testing, project management, site engineering, as well as operation and maintenance management.

Working alongside Clients as a trusted technical partner, RINA Consulting S.p.A. provides a wide range of traditional and innovative services to critical industry sectors, including oil & gas, power, renewables, space & defence, transport & infrastructure sectors. As such, RINA Consulting S.p.A. offers high-end services to investors, promoters, operators and contractors, as well as to insurers and public administrations, to support their initiatives. Innovation is a key element in all our projects; RINA Consulting S.p.A. has proven experience in helping its clients develop new products and services and managing collaborative innovation processes.

RINA's role in the project

RINA-C is the project partner and leader of work package 6, “Technological, Economic and Social Valorisation and Sustainability Strategies“. In this context, RINA-C is responsible for performing all the activities that will favour the market deployment and upscale of the project’s solutions, such as market analysis, business models, techno-economic roadmaps from TRL6 to TRL9 and future impacts and scenarios.

Furthermore, RINA-C will support the activities connected to the definition of product functional features, specifications and standards, and development of supercap management systems, and it will lead the tasks related to the analysis of scenarios for the deployment of project solutions and stakeholder’s needs as well as Exploitation and IPR Strategy.