Terna renews agreements with environmental NGOs for more "green" networks. The company that manages the national electricity transmission grid has signed new Memoranda of Understanding - for a three-year term - with Greenpeace, WWF e Legambiente for the development and construction of increasingly sustainable electricity infrastructures. The collaboration relationship - explains a note - aims at an increasingly ambitious improvement of the environmental sustainability of the ten-year Development Plan of the Italian transmission grid and of Terna's Business Plan, with a view to decarbonising the electricity system, also through a concrete and constant institutional dialogue and confrontation on subjects and measures of mutual interest.
The agreement between Terna and the environmental associations
The agreements between Terna and the environmental associations will make it possible to start a discussion on future energy scenarios and on the technological innovations of the electricity grids to support sources of renewable energy, on the basis of the objectives set by the European legislative packages and the national directives contained in the PNIEC and in the PNRR. Furthermore, they will serve to focus attention on the integration, in territorial planning, of the other resources necessary for the energy transition, i.e. storage systems and sustainable energy sources, in particular offshore wind farms.
The agreements have the objective of increasing, as far as possible, and monitoring the level of integration of environmental criteria within the Integrated Planning process for the development of the electricity grid, also evaluating the definition of new performance indicators, where the legislation in force is not sufficiently challenging from the point of view of environmental sustainability. Lastly, the parties undertake to act on the regulatory aspects that allow for the acceleration of the authorizations of the infrastructural works necessary to achieve the ecological transition within the times established by national policies and in compliance with the safety and quality requirements of the electricity service.
Bosetti (Terna): "Protecting the environment and biodiversity of our country"
“Today it is more necessary than ever to promote and implement all possible initiatives to further disseminate and increase the culture of sustainability in the energy field. Terna, as director of the energy transition, has always been committed to the environmentally sustainable development of grid infrastructures, through an innovative approach based on continuous dialogue and sharing with all stakeholders, also for the benefit of local communities and territories. The renewed collaboration with Greenpeace Italia, Legambiente and WWF Italia will allow us to continue along the path undertaken for years to make the planning and construction choices of works on the territory increasingly sustainable and to protect the environmental and biodiversity heritage of our country". said Valentina Bosetti, president of Terna.
