According to the Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani “we must install 70 gigawatts of renewables over the next 9 yearsto reach the 55% decarbonisation target ». The plan was explained during the presentation of the Energy Services Manager’s report (in collaboration with Il Sole 24 Ore), an event with over 2,200 subscribers.
«Considering that 0.8 gigawatts per year have been installed so far – said Cingolani – there is an efficiency factor 10 that we must recover. This is a huge leap, we are working and then we will have to start with repowering and the new auctions at an average of 8 gigawatts per year: it will be a marathon to run at the pace of 100 meters ».
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Budget e bandi
Another important point is the budget and timing for the calls. “The Ministry of the Environment, like the other ministries, until now had a limited budget of 1.5 billion a year, mostly of fixed expenses, now with the Pnrr it is a question of spending about 16 billion a yearand not in the fixed expenses mode but in the mode of large international projects », said Cingolani. Furthermore, as regards the calls for tenders linked to the Recovery fund, «after 30 Juneyou can start ».
Funds for 15 billion
Here are the main numbers that emerged from the GSE report for 2020. Over 15 billion euros for the promotion of sustainability, of which 11.9 for the incentive of electricity produced from renewable sources, 1.1 billion for energy efficiency and for renewables in the thermal sector, 1 billion dedicated to biofuels. In addition, proceeds from CO2 auctions under the European Ets mechanism (Emission Trading Scheme) are 1.3 billion euros.
“The pandemic has helped to strengthen awareness of the importance of sustainable development and the urgency of putting in place all the efforts necessary to achieve the even more challenging objectives that Europe has deemed to be setting itself”, declared the President of the GSE. , Francesco Vetrò, underlining that “the energy transition is the main key to overcome such a complex historical moment”. Here because. Despite the impacts of the coronavirus, in 2020 the Operator favored the activation of new public and private investments in the green economy sector for about 2.2 billion while electricity generated from renewable sources and energy savings induced by efficiency measures incentives prevented the emission of 42 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, equal to the consumption of 109 million barrels of oil.