175 billion planned for sustainable growth, of which 30 for gas and electricity networks and infrastructures, 35 for renewable sources and 110 for energy efficiency. These are the additional investments by 2030 in sectors with a high impact on employment and technological innovation which are activated by the National Energy Strategy, the Italian Government's plan to anticipate and manage change in the energy system by acting on competitiveness, sustainability and safety.
The 2017 Sen was illustrated at Palazzo Chigi by the Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, and by the ministers of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda and of the Environment, Gian Luca Galletti and foresees, among other things, a strong acceleration of the complete exit from coal in thermal plants in 2025 and paves the way towards total decarbonisation, to achieve, compared to 1990, a reduction in emissions of 39% in 2030 and 63% in 2050.
“The goal – he explained Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni – is having a strategy that on the one hand makes our production system more sustainable in terms of the environment and on the other more competitive. These two aspects – he continued – are intertwined; once they seemed contradictory and different, today it is evident that there is a coincidence: working for sustainability is not only a commitment for the next generations, but we also do it thinking about the competitiveness of our system, and here Italy has so many cards to play, we have so many assets in our hands”.
