Renewables, the parties have many ideas but not always clear

In the long term, on the other hand, Action and Italia Viva propose to include in the energy mix, alongside renewables, the nuclear, also – they argue – to avoid excessive land consumption by installing solar panels and wind turbines. “To achieve this goal – reads the program – it is needed right now define the regulatory framework that regulates the deployment over time of the necessary technologies, at the best economic conditions“. Finally, it is proposed to increase the plants by 13% in terms of volume district heating, extending the network by 900 kilometers by 2030. 250 plants fueled with wood from small mountain municipalities will be needed, for an estimated cost of 125 million euros. Finally, it is necessary to invest 1.2 billion in biogas plants, in order to introduce biomethane into the heating network.

As always, the proposals of Luigi De Magistris’ party are radical. We start with the nationalization of the energy sector “starting with Enel Green Power“,”to create a public company that invests in renewable energy and thus guarantee energy autonomy to the country and a progressive public control over the entire energy sector“. Stop to incinerators and nuclear power. As regards the new renewable installationsthe aim is to 10 MegaWatts per year, to be distributed throughout the national territory, preferably on areas already artificial and with wind farms preferably offshore, not favoring further land consumption. A few more indications would have been useful, since the issue is thorny.

De Magistris also proposes a public fund to finance local energy communitiesstrictly aimed at self-consumption and non-profit, theabolition of environmentally harmful subsidiesi, lo stop to every oil extraction project in Italy, no public support for fossil fuels And blocking of funding for fossil projects by 2024.

In the center-right program (timidly called “framework agreement”) the challenge of energy self-sufficiency ends up in eleventh place out of a total of fifteen points; always better than the environment, relegated to twelfth place despite being pompously defined “a priority“. The minimum common denominator of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and Forza Italia appears extremely thin and generic. Few commitments, no figures: a corpus so small that it can be quoted literally, word for word, without fear of omitting anything.

It opens with “sustainable energy transition”, Where the interpretation of the adjective is entrusted to the reader. We continue with an unspecified “increased production of renewable energy“That does not bother to set limits or to refer to European commitments, which require an average of 10 GigaWatts per year from now to 2030. We then speak of”diversification of energy supplies and realization of a plan for energy self-sufficiency“Not further defined; “full use of national resourcesalso through the reactivation and new construction of natural gas wells with a view to sustainable use of sources“,”promotion of energy efficiency“; “support for the policies of price-cap at European level”; “Recourse to energy production through the creation of latest generation plants without vetoes and preconceptions, also evaluating the use of clean and safe nuclear power“. C’est tout.

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