Renewables we reward Lombardy. The industrialists of the Region they are the greenest in Italy, with peaks of competitive excellence for other European countries. The latest report on alternative energies recognizes in Lombardy a net 16% of production from non-polluting sources. An interesting result for experts, who puts anyway in light a strong structural and strategic gap between North and South, between city and countryside, between strong and weak areas.
Although Lombardy does not have a widespread wind or geothermal production network, its companies are making the leap in quality. Towards decarbonisation, of course, but above all with an eye to the UN objectives on the reduction of polluting sources.
What does that 16% of production contain?, figure very close to the total of Italian renewables? 16.330 gigawatt hours network in 2016 generated by plants of all kinds. The Report focuses in particular on thermal solar panels and biogas plants. Structures, the latter, which also earn Lombardy the fourth position at national level and make Councilor Raffaele Cattaneo say that in Milan and its surroundings there is one highly innovative spirit.
In the generalized dynamics of growth, the Region, the Municipalities and the transport companies must, however, do something more. The polluting fuels that keep public transport going score still very high percentages.
There is no certainty about who will support the new investments. The government has announced several times a new decree law on renewablesbut so far nothing concrete. While the South is lagging behind in spending and programs, the North (besides Lombardy) has also had an increase in non-polluting domestic systems with about 400 million euros in private investments. If the government accepts the estimates of the IEA (International Energy Agency) according to which investments in renewable electricity have decreased by 7% and to get back on track it will be necessary to find 550 billion dollars by 2030, has a very good reason to be quick.
