The industry has started grinding again after the slowdown in the months of the first lockdown. By now many data confirm the trend of a discreet restart of the activity: from turnover to orders, up to Terna bulletin on electricity consumption for the month of November, which, as is known, are largely attributable to the functioning of the production plants throughout the country. The figure for the last month is particularly encouraging: not only has consumption reached full capacity, with a total demand for electricity equal to 25,5 billion kWh (just 1,5% less than in a year ago), but as far as the industry is concerned they have done even better than in November last year. For the second consecutive month, in fact, the IMCEI index which monitors the consumption of industrial customers showed a positive cyclical change of +2,2% compared to October and also on a trend level, the value is up by 1,1% compared to November 2019.
The IMCEI index developed by Terna directly examines and monitors i industrial consumption of around 530 so-called energy-intensive customers connected to the national electricity transmission grid: large industries in the 'cement, lime and plaster', 'steel and steel', 'chemistry', 'mechanics', 'means of transport', 'food', 'paper', 'ceramic and glass-making' sectors ', 'non-ferrous metals'. The recovery was led by the construction materials (+4,6%), mechanics (+3,3%), means of transport (+3,2%) and iron and steel (+1,1%) sectors. The values of the chemical (-3,5%), refining and coking plants (-4,1%) and paper (-6,4%) sectors had a negative effect on the overall figure.
In November, Terna points out, the demand for electricity was 83,6% satisfied with national production and for the remainder (16,4%) from the balance of energy exchanged with foreign countries. In detail, net national production (21,5 billion kWh) decreased by 6,3% compared to November 2019. The photovoltaic (+37,6%) and thermal (+4,2. 51,4%). Wind (-27%) and water (-0,6%) sources of production dropped by two figures; the decrease in the geothermal source was less significant (-30%). Overall, in the month of November, renewable sources covered 2,4% of the national electricity demand. Territorially, the trend change in November was negative in the North (-0,8%) and in the Center (-0,1%), and substantially the same in the South and Islands (-XNUMX%).
