Renewables, Cingolani: “We made an extraordinary acceleration and this year in the first auction we awarded 1.8 gigawatts”
“Everyone is talking about renewable, but the time for chatter is over, now it is important to see if everyone believes it. “Thus the Minister of Ecological Transaction, Roberto Cingolanispeaking to Morning 24 on Radio 24 on the subject of obstacles bureaucratic to renewableswarms the tone on one of the hottest dossiers on a political and economic level: energy.
“We have arrived at highlight, in the sense that we currently have no alternatives to energy independence and we have an equally important ecological emergency. We did extraordinary acceleration and this year in the first auction we awarded 1.8 gigawatts which is much more than in the previous two years. We have brought, with the substitute power of the state, a whole series of plants blocked in the Council of Ministers and we have unblocked them; honestly, you can’t do more than this. After that, if the situations where everything is blocked remain, the famous nimby syndrome, then it will be necessary to intervene in another way. I hope not because this is about national energy security and everyone must make their contribution. ”
While speaking of gas, according to Minister Cingolani “the mother of all battles is having a limit on the price of gas, a price cap that must be internationalit cannot be only national because if we put a limit only in Italy, exporters would simply say that they do not sell in Italy because it is not convenient and we would be out of the loop “.
“We are doing a very strong battle, at European level, it is a concept introduced by us and is now being analyzed very carefully in the Commission. If it were a European match, it would make more sense because Europe imports three quarters of the world’s gas into its pipelines and therefore has such commercial strength as a buyer that it can also determine market prices. “And the minister adds:” The second important thing is decouple the price of electricity from the price of gas“and” perhaps we can think of doing this at a national level, but the first must be European “.
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