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Italy's ERG proves you can trade oil for renewables and win

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It was established in 1938 as a small oil, tar and chemicals business; in the postwar reconstruction period, its founder, Edoardo Garrone, pivoted to brick manufacturing. In October 2023, ERG divested of its last remaining hydrocarbon asset, with the sale of a combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in Sicily.