(Finance) – The Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto CingolaniItaly will be independent from the supplies of gas Russian in the second half of 2024. “Italy imports 40% of gas from Russia and at the moment these 29 billion cubic meters per year are at risk and this makes the period difficult for our country and for the rest of Europe – he recalled during his speech at the forum “Towards the South“organized in Sorrento – over the past two months we have worked hard to differentiate supplies and particularly in collaboration with our partners in Africa. There are 6 or 7 countries with which the Italian government has signed specific agreements for 25 billion cubic meters for the next few years and this makes the situation easier “.
“As you can imagine some of this new gas will be available in the next 6 months and there will be a progressive increase in new supplies. And our forecast is that if the situation does not change dramatically in the next few months we will be able to complete ours. storage and to be independent in the second half of 2024, “said Cingolani.
“I would like to make a comparison with the situation of the Covid. It has been shown that if we join forces we can develop a vaccine in 8 months, which was totally unexpected and no one would have thought it in the past. Now we need to show that exactly like we did with Covid, we have one energy pandemic emergency in a certain way. We must join forces to invest seriously because this cannot be overcome except with a joint global effort “, he added. Cingolani explained that” this will also have a impact social remarkable not only economic. There are three billion people who do not have access to energy. So if we can build highly efficient, low cost and universal programmable energy sources over the next few years we will have helped these three billion people by reducing inequalities worldwide. “
The minister then underlined that the Government in the last 4 months has authorized more than 2.5 GW again capacity renewable“more than authorized in the last three years and this means that we expect a decisive acceleration in the installation of new plants in the next six months. We plan to save approximately 5 to 6 million cubic meters of gas already this year”.
The Minister of Economic Development also spoke at the Sorrento forum on the energy dossier, Giancarlo Giorgetti“The South is the gateway to the Mediterranean, from North Africa to the Middle East, the chosen place to produce power green and transport it to Europe. In the future, in the next 20-30 years, the South becomes a strategic place, the gateway to energy to maintain all of Europe “, he said.” The South has the Sun that others don’t have, “he added.
Giorgetti then extended the discussion to another sector particularly interested by transition energythat ofautomotive. “I proudly claim in the automotive field the choice of when I did not want to sign the Cop26 which established the inevitability ofelectric the sector as destiny. This would mean handing over to a large country, which I do not name, our sovereignty in the automotive sector within 20 years as we did for gas with Russia “.” We defend the principle of neutrality technological, for which biofuels and hydrogen, for which it is then necessary to guarantee an infrastructural system to power hydrogen cars. The state must guarantee the possibility of refueling “.
“I believe – added the minister – that the technology go faster than politics and I don’t understand why the policy it must say that the destiny is that of the electric one. I am convinced that hydrogen it will make significant progress and will be competitive. “