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Energy, renewables and the government to come

Hundreds of Italian companies are waiting to have regulatory and financial certainties for the next three years, as well as other important indications connected to the European environmental objectives.

Energy, renewables and the government to come

Among the many priorities that the forthcoming government will find on the table, there are some strategic decisions in environmental and energy matters. Anyone going to occupy the seats of Minister of the Environment and Economic Development will find themselves faced with the dossier on incentives for renewable energies. Hundreds of companies awaiting regulatory and financial certainties for the next three years, as well as other important indications linked to European environmental objectives. The calls for a brand new Parliament to act quickly and well come from many quarters. And if they really should be M representatives5S to find specific dossiers in their hands, they would have the opportunity of a lifetime to move from words to deeds. 

On non-polluting sources and for a completely country green, Grillo built his political fortune, even before other seductive themes. Today he has the opportunity to correct from within those processes that "the losers of March 4", according to the M5S propaganda, have conceived to favor oil companies and non-renewable sources lobbies. The decree on renewables becomes, therefore, the point crucial in which different visions of the future of Italy intersect. The place where coherence and the general interest shouldn't collide. This is why curiosity is high. The capacity of the new decision-makers will be tested, in a global scenario, especially when the GSE has certified that Italy is the third country in Europe for energy consumption powered by renewable sources. As if to say that we are not at year zero at all. 

The latest appeal to do well and quickly comes from the scientific world gathered around the Kyoto Club. From Gianni Silvestrini to Giovan Battista Zorzoli, to Francesco Ferrante, to Stefano Ciavani all together are asking that the extra incentive for the removal of asbestos roofing and replacement with solar panels be restored soon. A technical indication with virtuous implications for the great work that will have to be done. 26 years have passed since the ban on asbestos, but Italy is still full of them. Estimates - as also mentioned on other occasions - indicate around 40 million tons of widespread artifacts and 75 hectares of land with proven contamination. How do you reconcile the removal of the killer fiber with renewable energy? With the inclusion, precisely, in the decree of financial concessions to definitively remove the asbestos roofing and start with the renovation with solar panels. It is just one piece of a composite mosaic that the outgoing government has failed to complete. 

One is expected colossal clean-up operation of illegal sites and places of coexistence, on which, unfortunately, thousands of deaths per year weigh. The need to convert terrible places with advanced technologies is widely shared by our industry, although it is not the only lever of success. The political game is open. The new ministers will also have to become aware that asbestos products gradually deteriorate and the vast surfaces occupied are the most suitable for receiving new technologies. And since the world of renewables is based on competition, through auctions for the award of the quantities to be produced, the scientists of the Kyoto Club believe that the reconversion business should be included in the award criteria. A delicate but strategic job and without thinking of giving gifts to anyone.

2 thoughts on "Energy, renewables and the government to come"

  1. Pier Luigi Caffese Edit

    Eni ganassa.
    1.Ganassa is a word cleared by Calenda for Vivendi-Bollore', which in Milan sounds like someone full of money who says I do everything, in jargon it is said that sbura
    2.Descalzi Eni says it takes 60 years to change energy transition. Clever as it is, it took the first 60 years as Eni and now it wants another 60 to build useless gas pipelines like TAP-Poseidon-Malta/Sicily.
    3.Ganassa Eni means to confuse the waters by saying that Eni innovates like few others in the world. This is suggested by the American PR guru. So you advertise biofuel of apple and potato peels, a plastic fabric that absorbs solar energy 10 years old and I said 10 years for bus shelters. But that's not enough given that Eni flopped on algafuel, while Exxon is doing great.
    4. Eni merger joins forces with Mit throwing away 1 billion. Now the DOE US has realized that there are braggarts in the merger and has forced them into a single Consortium with a 15-30 year target. In Italy, Mise will instead pay out 2 billion for the nothing to give to the Eni project and that to Frosinone Enea which is useless without accelerating petawatt lasers.
    5. Having discovered that the merger is a flop and that Eni is maneuvering the politicians to enjoy another 60 years of gas income, you understand that they make TAP say priority which is a huge lie since it matters, while I want to produce renewable methane that does not it is biomethane.
    6. Caffese proposes to sit in the Mise or parliament for an integrated approach in order to improve the chances of success? Caffese with the Germans has greatly reduced energy costs using 3 basic concepts: hydroelectric and marine pumping, digital platform and energy coupling. Instead Calenda and Eni in preparing the SEN have made a false coupling i.e. the marriage between renewables and gas for 110 TWh. Here there should be an investigation by Parliament and the Court of Auditors to verify the futility of this marriage made only to favor imported gas which costs too much and depresses the GDP of 400 billion a year in Italy by not making 4 million people work in più.Be careful that there are not only the 110 Twh of gas in the SEN but the capacity payment gas or capacity market which is the monopoly system state aid then billed to pay for gas pipelines, coal replacement gas plants. See battle Eni 550 gr CO2 x KWh when we know very well that over 100 gr of methane emissions trigger the ozone precursor that leads to cancer (see WHO reports and recent UN-EDF agreement -8/9 oil companies, including Eni).
    7. A key message that emerges from all aspects of the IEA analysis is the need for an integrated technological and policy approach that I call energy coupling to guide and accelerate clean energy transitions based on the national context of the country Italy which wants to 90 % 100% renewables. The recent decline in upstream fossil fuel investment illustrates the need for policy coordination.
    8. While this shift by itself may align with a low-carbon path, continued declines in supply-side investment without adequate measures to address growing renewable energy demand create significant energy security risks that Caffese solved with simple hydroelectric pumping on existing sites. As a second example, policies that drive electrification can yield greater environmental benefits when implemented alongside those for true decarbonization without imported gas in electricity and heat supply through power to renewable methane and power to heat,steel,green chemical .
    9. Implementing such an integrated policy approach requires significant national coordination and capacity, including in-house technology and policy expertise. The Government must no longer go after Eni or the banks that finance it, but must instead continue to share best practices and international advice to help Italy undertake its clean energy transition which is worth 400 billion more GDP per year. .
    10. The Tap is no longer needed let's cancel it, but a serious water-energy plan is needed on a renewable digital platform that leads to the energy coupling of renewable methane and clean fuels via FTS starting with eni's biorefineries on the Po. If Eni were smart, it would join the Italian Consortium which I call coupling and is then sold abroad under our Italian license, the best clean technology in the world made from water and sea. Eni's business if it wants to put gas abroad, indeed I teach him how to clean with CARMA methods, but in Italy we don't just use renewable methane and clean fuels with steel and clean chemistry to provide 4 million jobs, make the GDP soar to 3.000 billion a year, bring Italian consumption not to 300 TWh as Calenda says in the SEN which for me is too low, but at least 600 TWh with a lower bill.

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  2. There are plans for 125 billion GDP and 100 million less imports, but who votes for them? Only the M5S and the Lega vote with fossil FI? The Democratic Party has 20% Renzian-calendar fossils and 80% renewable base. What will they do?

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