(Finance) – “We welcome the approval by the Council of Ministers of the PNRR Decree-Law which, thanks to the strengthening of Plan 5.0 using the resources of the REPowerEU, free for the two-year period 2024-2025 6.3 billion euros for energy efficiency initiatives linked to digital investments for production plants”. As Aldo BigattiPresident of ASSILNational Association of Lighting Manufacturers which brings together around 90 companies representing a sector with a total turnover of around 2.8 billion.
“Whereas the Transition Plan 4.0 represented an industrial policy measure par excellence, appreciated across the entire industrial sector, Transition 5.0, a renewed and enhanced version, will be a fundamental tool for the relaunch of investments and the development of the Italian industrial chain – continues Bigatti –. In particular, the anchoring of investments in digitalisation to the green component is an extremely important and long-desired step by ASSIL. The businesses of lighting they will be at the forefront on a dual front: the purchase of subsidized goods – to maintain the excellence of production – and the supply of the same. Now we just have to wait for the implementation rules of the Plan to be put into practice, hoping for an ever greater adoption and knowledge of the use of lighting systems which see industry as the main player in the transition environmental. Furthermore, the use of LED sources with advanced control systems would allow for a significant economic return for the companies themselves and an increase in the efficiency and well-being of their workers”.