Decarbonization through electrification of public historic buildings. The case study of National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome

This work shows the methodology adopted to decarbonize - through electrification - the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, an historic building working as a museum, and also provides the achieved measured results. The decarbonization through electrification is the most important part of the integrated approach followed by the museum; this path started in 2017, efficiency works were made in 2021 and from 2022 the National Gallery is a net-zero museum hosted in a historic building. The monitoring of energy consumption of the first year after the works shows interesting findings: the new electricity consumption has been lower than the previous one, thanks to the efficiency of the new systems: electrification does not necessarily mean to increase the electric consumption