La ecological transition will have a substantial package of resources: "The Italian recovery plan will allocate 80 billion euros over 5 years to green projects that concern an acceleration of de-carbonisation, with reductions that can certainly reach 55%, aiming for 60% of emissions per 2030”. The Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani announced it Wednesday during a telephone conversation with the Special Envoy for the Climate of the President of the United States, John Kerry, who is traveling in the major European capitals.
But what part will they have technologies in the ecological transition plan that the government will present soon? “I gave myself a few months to create a vision document that will remain for future choices,” said Roberto Cingolani. Among the points that the minister will have to examine in depth there is, in fact, that of technologies, the most suitable innovations to take Italy on the right path of decarbonisation. The deficit is currently high and no sustainability measure adopted so far has contributed to concretely raising the level of production capacity with low environmental impact. Is it superfluous to remember that in Italian laboratories and centers there are scientists and researchers of the highest quality? The paradox is that on the one hand we are working on hydrogen, biogas, photovoltaics and on the other - in 2020 - the country spent 2,2 billion euros on environmentally friendly technologies.
In 'annus horribilis for the pandemic energy consumption fell by 10%, CO2 emissions by 12%, technological spending applied to energy sources grew by 27%. A very high ceiling, says the Enea Report on the national energy trend. We went to the markets to buy low carbon technologies, electric vehicles, hybrid cars and batteries. All things that with a different economic-industrial approach and with due support for research we would have avoided spending. Or at least to that extent. The final incidence was 56% on the entire import for the year. Overall, the trade deficit for green technologies was 1,1 billion euros, against a 14% reduction in total goods imports.
Renewables they are no longer a taboo in the Italian system. They occupy a 20% share of the production mix and slightly higher (+3%) than the EU ceilings for 2020. "But - explains Francesco Gracceva of Enea - if total consumption had remained at 2019 levels, the share of renewables would it would have stopped at just over 18%, confirming the fact that progress towards the target established in the Energy and Climate Plan for 2030 (30%) remains slow".
On the territories they are slowed down installations of new renewable electricity capacity. So in the end they are 1/4 of those necessary to keep up with the indications of the EU. Unjustifiable for anyone who designs new scenarios, at the cost of regretting so many incomprehensible false environmentalist battles. The foresight of a true green strategy must therefore rely on the seriousness and experience of Italian structures. To compete adequately for the next few years, the synthesis that Cingolani will have to look for lies in the centrality of the accumulation of energy produced and in the advanced digitization of networks and services. In a new system that brings together production, distribution and storage, as a response, even a transitory one, to the fateful 2050 of Europe.
Fossil and renewable sources will stay together at least for the next ten years, of course downstream of a reduction in state contributions to fossil fuels. Companies know this and for this reason they left much earlier than politics, which in this phase should better study budgets and development plans to learn how to program in research, patents, less technological imports, interaction. The Enea data basically tell us this. As the deadline approaches Recovery plans we will see the real choices of the government. The breadth of vision with respect to system holes so large that they can be covered with new infrastructures, services for people and businesses, red tape and fast platforms. The negative experience of the "was" Piano Colao del Conte 2 has left good intentions left in the archives, but leads us to believe that the Draghi government will go down a completely different path.
