Presented today in Bocconi one studio Cresv Bocconi and Accenture (drawn up on data from the Ministry of Economic Development) photographer the Italian situation of the energy consumption of the industrial system, a consumption that fell, in absolute terms, down to 473 TWh in 2010, starting from 552 in 2007. This drop, which unfortunately does not mean an increased energy efficiency of our companies, but rather a decline in industrial production.
On the energy efficiency front, in fact, the data show that there have been no substantial improvements (the energy intensity index remained at 15, while it has improved in some European countries) compared to 2007, the year in which the crisis began.
A very hot topic, that of energy efficiency, which is also being addressed The Observatory on the Costs of Not Doing by prof. Gilardoni. And it is a theme in which the need for decisive investments is growing, also considering that theItaly suffers from a competitive disadvantage linked to the composition of consumption, strongly focused (over 70%) on natural gas and foreign-derived electricity, with Italian companies which, in 2009, paid 16,77 euro cents per KWh before taxes, against an average price for Europe at 27 of 12,72 cents.
“All of this imposes the need to send a strong signal to Italian companies", explains Francesco Perrini, director of Cresv Bocconi, who must look at energy efficiency as "a lever for development, a tool for creating value".
And the effort of the research group is aimed precisely at this awareness of companies, which has drawn up a manifesto that suggests some actions to be taken. Among the eighteen points, the stand out need for a tax break for companies that implement energy efficiency projects, an incentive system that rewards not so much absolute reductions, but those with the same turnover, and a centralization of authorization processes within a single authority, simplifying bureaucratic procedures.
For Mauro Marchiaro, head of resources at Accenture, “In recent years, the issues of sustainability and energy saving have become a strategic must for the entire system, in order to achieve the ambitious 2020 targets of a total of 20 million TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) saved".
"It is essential", concludes Perrini, "to sensitize the government and political bodies towards an incentive policy for energy efficiency based on sources other than fossil ones and aimed at encouraging the use of renewable sources".
