More and more electricity from renewables, but the political step must be accelerated. There the watchword for the future are renewable communities, on which in addition to good intentions, the government is called to play its part.
There are companies, so the 2020 Energy Report of Legambiente calls for some reflections. First recognize that in ten years more than 1 million renewable plants have been put into operation, between electricity and heat, in 7.911 Italian municipalities, against the initial 356. A positive but slow trend. Then accept at all levels that a "new era for clean energy which aims at collective self-consumption from renewable sources.”
From this point of view, Italy has the strategic opportunity to do before and better than other European countries that talk about it. A challenge, as Legambiente defines it, but which looks a lot like a political dispute over the money to invest. In fact "in the acceleration of investments - reads the Report - essential to arrive at a system 100% focused on renewables, we must make a second revolutionary change, which puts the territory even more at the centre, with its renewable resources and the answer to be found to the various demands for electricity and heat".
And the third reflection: the ability of the institutions to stimulate energy communities in the territories. Social aggregations capable of increasing the demand for renewables and reducing imports of fossil fuels.
How ready is politics to push in this direction? Legambiente highlights how in Italy the growth of clean energy is still too slow. Net of that trend of the last ten years for plant engineering, in the last five years they have been installed 459 MW of solar and 390 of wind. Snail rhythms, in spite of authorizations, bureaucracy, constraints, oppositions of committees and grilline fantasies. This is not what families and businesses expect, both eager to finally see the bill go down. And then the last thought. At this rate what will become of the climate plan and Energy drawn up by the government and which, moreover, the EU has already asked to review?
There are goals for 2030, which seem to stick to the dossiers that contain them. Numbers that fearfully lengthen until there is real regulatory simplification, an increase in public spending on energy storage systems, the growth of biofuels, research and experimentation. Legambiente on the basis of its data writes of a shift forward of 20 years. I wonder if politics has noticed.
