The race at renewable in the world he does not see Italy in the top positions. In 2022, according to the World energy transitions outlook (Weto) edited by Irena, the country has moved away from the 2030 goals. Among the documents and think-tanks that monitor the energy transition, the Weto is among the most reliable. A point of view shared with other international agencies, where there is a need for acceleration especially in the release of authorizations for new plants. In one year in Italy the total renewable power put into operation was only 3 Gigawatts. Low. On the other hand, there is no shortage of surprises in 2023 as well. The latest comes from Sicily, where the President of the Region Renato Schifani has suspended permits for photovoltaics. In the coming weeks he wants to evaluate whether there is a business profit and any environmental damage from the installation of the panels.
Renewables cannot mark time: Italy among the countries behind
The preview of the Irena Report presented in Berlin does not only concern Italy, but the world, the most industrialized countries. The global financial ups and downs are not helping the process of containing global warming. This is why a fourfold increase in the level of the workers is being requested investments current. Otherwise staying inside 1,5 C° will be difficult. In 2022 renewables scored a + 10% spending, a fact that should be seen only as a signal for a more vigorous push. Governments know this but do not earn the esteem of economic paradigm shift analysts. Irena argues the need to install new plants for an average of 1.000 Gigawatts per year. With a trend of this kind, it will be possible to reach 10 Gigawatts in 2030. After all, there are seven years to go and it is time to slightly review the systemic approach to energy transition. Since – we add – the tables are being opened in Europe around the PNRR and the revision of some objectives of the Next Generation EU, there is an opportunity to update the vision, at least the European one. On the other hand, no country of the Old Continent can consider itself outside these needs. A year of war in Ukraine forced everyone to find solutions alternatives or insist on those alive, to Russian gas. On this point, Weto is right when he states that the solutions to be taken in a short time concern the socioeconomic structure of the states. A distorted view of the new development model does nothing but generate other inequalities that have their first confirmation in energy and related systems such as water, health, waste.
Three pillars for the transition to a new coexistence
“The stakes couldn't be higher,” he said Francis La Camera, general manager of Irena – A profound transformation of the global energy system must occur in less than 30 years, underlining the need for a new approach to accelerate the energy transition to move to an energy system fit for the dominance of renewables. The best and regenerative way for everyone is to bet on three pillars: physical infrastructure, political and regulatory enablers, and a well-skilled workforce. Things that are practicable, certainly, but which "require significant investments and new ways of cooperation", adds La Camera.
A peaceful and supportive coexistence, as the COPs on the climate of the United Nations strive to do without, however, managing to affect the policies of individual countries. The question is: what weighs on the structural level? Funding for fossil fuels. This question is always debated by both industrialists and environmentalists. Now perhaps we have arrived at new choices. Any decision for new investments in renewables must start from a heavy 41% of global investments by 2050 in favor of polluting fuels. Money, the Report tells us, already planned to amount to 1.000 billion dollars by 2030. Both Europe and the United States have announced mega-plans in support of green industry for a few weeks now. All that remains is to redirect those resources maybe add them to the Plans Joe Biden e Ursula Von Der Layen. In practice, a destructuring of energy finance which must focus on new green technologies. The numbers are staggering. L'1,3 trillion dollars by 2022 would have to rise to over 5 trillion to stay within the 1,5°C global warming limit. The alternatives are very few.
