Italy has undertaken, together with the other European countries, to increase by 2020 the share of energy produced from renewable sources. An objective that our country is trying to achieve through the Green Certificates, the Energy Bill and the All-Inclusive Tariff, i.e. the incentives for new plants which mean, for each family, an extra bill of just 2 euros a month, just over a coffee. A small figure: just think that, in 2010, every Italian spent on average 17 times more on betting than he spent on supporting all renewables and, for video poker alone, a good 31 times more compared to what the photovoltaic incentive paid. This is what emerges from a study
Moreover, 78% of electricity in Italy is produced with foreign raw materials, while the renewables are 100% Italian. Furthermore, the sector will invest at least 10 billion euros over the next 70 years, giving work to over 250.000 workers in 2020. To be clear: today, all the bartenders and lawyers in Italy put together do not reach 200.000 units. Not to mention, finally, that missing the European targets for 2020 would have a high cost in terms of sanctions that the country (the citizens) would have to pay to the European Union.
Through the adoption of various scenarios, the Aper research office has modulated the level of development of future incentives: providing for the current incentive instruments, as per current legislation, the annual increase on the bill would be 78 euros a year. On the contrary, assuming the opposite, very improbable hypothesis, which provides for a total stop to the creation of new renewable energy from 2012, there would be an annual expenditure per family on the bill of 44 euros, with a saving, compared to the first scenario, of just 35 euros, to which, however, the cost of the European sanctions attributed to Italy would remain to be added, for not having achieved the assigned objectives.
The bill pays a series of costs and rents which, in 2010 alone, weighed on the pockets of Italians by around 3 billion. These are incentives for similar sources and those for the closure of the 4 nuclear power plants in Italy but also incentives for the mere willingness of 80 large consumers to have their supply interrupted, a hypothesis that will never happen. Lastly, the 80 themselves pay for electricity at discounted prices; the difference is found by the citizen on his bill.
