Time is proving Tuscany and the committees that want geothermal energy right. The Minister of Economic Development Patuanelli in front of the entrepreneurs of Assolombarda went unbalanced in reconsidering the underground source as strategic among renewables. He appealed to his own Cinquestelle movement to overcome incredible ambiguities and paradoxes that blocked necessary undertakings. The fears that had made inroads in some sectors of the population, like many other whims in the grillino highlight, are disappearing in the face of good energy deals and jobs at risk.
Patuanelli was joined by the Pd Undersecretary for the Environment Roberto Morassut, who acknowledged the imminent approval of the Fer2 decree to the Mise, despite the delays. The provision "cannot be combined with the maintenance of assumptions, often unscientific, on renewables" he said. And on the geothermal point, Patuanelli has expressed convincing guidelines, he added. A good proof of the truth is the environmental Link to the Finance Act and the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (Pniec). A document that is less and less immutable, given the sudden socio-environmental changes affecting Italy.
Tuscany with its extractions and agreements with electricity distributors is fighting for recognition as a geothermal system. He hopes that the government will come out of the uncertainties to put all renewable sources on the same level. The theme is characteristic of the Region where, for the first time in Italy at the beginning of the 900th century, the importance of exploiting the heat from the subsoil was understood. In other parts of the world, from Iceland to California, the Italian exploitation systems, see for the Larderello plant, have been analyzed and studied.
The point on which the Ministry of Economic Development and the Environment must have the courage to overcome ideological uncertainties and doubts is subsidies. Inventiveness for the intelligent production and exploitation of geothermal energy without damaging the environment. They must reduce support for traditional sources and encourage those for renewables. To all renewables, they ask in Tuscany: wind, photovoltaic, geothermal. Because clean electricity is obtained from all of them and they all have an important place in the national energy strategy. Especially when they don't have climate-altering impacts and don't leave an infinite wealth in the bowels of the earth.
