In two years, 8.000 jobs and 50% of turnover were lost. These are the main numbers of a crisis, that of the photovoltaic, with increasingly disturbing and defined contours. To tell it is a survey by ANIE / GIFI among the associated companies. A survey that also shows how, in the first nine months of 2013, the average hours of recourse to the Cig in the sector more than doubled compared to 2012, so much so that the number of employees on layoffs rose to 4.000 units.
A crisis which, according to the president of ANIE/GIFI Emilio Cremona will put the entire survival of the sector at risk: “There are over 8 photovoltaic workers who have lost their jobs since 2011. The negative vision that has been proposed in recent months by the various corporate and institutional stakeholders does absolutely no credit to a sector that has invested heavily in research and development, allowing the reduction of almost 80% of technology costs for end users ”.
Furthermore, the cost to the State of the contraction in the sector should not be underestimated: "It is sad to note - continues Cremona - that in Italy, where the revival of the economy should be at the top of the political agenda, there is still no industrial project that enhances the best investment of the country system made in recent years: that in renewable energy. A project that should arise from serious concertation between the various parties: industry, government and trade unions. The photovoltaic sector does not need further incentives, but a system of tax deductions extended to companies which favors the self-production of energy from renewable sources and allows the diffusion of accumulation systems and smart grid technologies”.
