In the endless debate on the electric car, a crucial aspect seems to be being lost. The one that sees Italy as the European country with the greatest potential for the production of renewable energy. But with enormous problems related to the production of electricity and heat because at the moment we still continue to depend heavily on foreign sources of supply of raw materials, especially gas and oil, of which 78% are imported from abroad. The data comes from Energred (www.Energred.Com), eSCo. At the forefront of the energy transition of Italian SMEs with particular attention to renewable sources and solar energy.
We spoke of a “crucial aspect” because our country – together with France and Germany – is among the most energy-intensive: 48% of energy consumption throughout the European Union is attributable precisely to these 3 countries. But there are also i positive signs: in the field of renewables, self-consumption and storage systems are growing exponentially, already exceeding 5,200 Gwh, a value equal to 21% of the total production of photovoltaic systems, with higher shares recorded in the industrial sector with 52% of self-consumed energy out of the total produced, in the tertiary sector (29%) and in the residential sector ( 26%). Returning to the balance sheet of the potential of renewables, energred promotes 12 of our regions with full marks, almost half of which has even achieved ‘coal free’ status, i.e. has already eliminated the consumption of coal, the fossil source that produces the most emissions of climate-changing gases. A turning point for the electric car.
But there’s more: by examining a plurality of sources that include the ministry of environment and energy security, the statistical office of Terna – national electricity grid, the higher institute for environmental protection and research, the Gse and Istat, Energred then analyzed our various sources of energy supply, the levels of actual consumption and the different forms of production, restoring the image of a country, Italy, which is winning the challenge of the decarbonisation process of the economy and which demonstrates resilience in facing the energy shock resulting from the conflict in Ukraine.
The total installed power – as emerges from the GSE data – is concentrated for 45% in the northern regions, for 37% in the southern ones and for the remaining 18% in the central ones. “The data show a very clear picture: Lombardy is the region with the largest number of photovoltaic plants (12% of the national total), followed by Veneto (11.1%), Emilia Romagna (7.9%), Piedmont (5. 3) and Lazio (5.1%), while Puglia excels in terms of installed capacity with 13% of the total.
The data indicate that today 40.2% of the electricity produced in Italy derives from renewable sources and overall our country is technically self-sufficient: the existing plants are capable of delivering a maximum net power of around 120 gw against a historical maximum demand which in the hottest periods of the summer is 60 gw. We therefore have an overabundance of production facilities. And we can say that photovoltaics is now widespread in all sectors and this also explains the strong increase recorded in storage systems (Sda), devices capable of absorbing and storing electricity and then releasing it when the need is greatest. Result? All of this allows us today to offer companies – even small and medium-sized enterprises – energy prices that are much lower than the price of the “raw energy material” on the market alone.
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