In the search for effective solutions to deal with the dear-gas, which yesterday turned over 340 euros per MWh, the Government is thinking of postponing the switching on of radiators in homes and offices in the autumn and to anticipate their closure at the end of the winter season. It is one of the measures at the heart of the energy savings plan which will accompany the new decree in support of families and businesses in gestation in the government and which will perhaps be ready as early as next week. In addition to the different calendar of openings and closings of the radiators, the Government it will also ask private individuals to lower the temperature in homes and offices by one degree. But obviously in the foreground are the new discounts for petrol, the offer of energy packages at controlled prices, the cig for energy-intensive companies and the extension of tax credits for companies that will be included in the new decree: the good news of the last few hours is that these interventions should be possible without budget deviations due to the good performance of tax revenues.
CARO-GAS, DRAGHI INSISTS FOR THE EUROPEAN PRICE CAP AND TO UNBIND ELECTRICITY PRICES FROM GAS
Minister Roberto is working above all on the energy saving plan crawlers which is trying to identify interventions that avoid rationing of industrial activities. But it is clear that the gas emergency is not just an Italian problem and that is why Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the first in Europe, has been asking for months that the EU adopt a European price cap and to untie electricity prices from those of the gas. News could perhaps arrive in mid-September when the president of the EU, Ursula Von der Leyen will convene an extraordinary meeting of energy ministers to discuss "specific emergency measures".
