PNRR, Meloni: RepowerEU will contribute to the implementation of the “Mattei Plan”

The PNRR Control Room was held today with the competent ministries and the investee companies Eni, Enel, Snam and Terna to start a discussion on the new chapter to be included in the PNRR relating to RepowerEU, the European plan to address the difficulties of the global energy market caused by the war in Ukraine. The meeting – explained Palazzo Chigi in a note – was held in the presence of the Prime Minister, Georgia Melons, by the Minister for the Pnrr, Cohesion Policies and the South, Raffaele Fitto and all the competent ministers. The managing directors of the main operators in the national energy and electricity sector participated, Enel, Eni, Snam and Terna.

During the meeting, President Meloni affirmed that “the new plan will allow Italy to make a strong contribution to the realization of the ‘Floor Matthew‘ in order to consolidate the process of diversification of supplies towards a total elimination of Russian gas and to make Italy become energy hub of the Mediterranean for all of Europe in a fruitful relationship of cooperation especially with African countries”.

The Minister Dense he illustrated the main objectives, methods and terms for the definition of the entire Plan and affirmed that in the next few days the discussion with all the national and local institutional subjects will be completed, as requested by the European Commission. The RepowerEU and the contextual update of the PNRR they will have to completed by April 30th.

“The challenge to strengthen the sovereignty energy requires a commitment from everyone – highlighted President Meloni – today an institutional process begins which will allow us to develop and subsequently implement a plan that will make Italy more sustainable from an energy point of view through the increase of energy production from sources renewable, the diversification of supply sources, the reduction of consumption. In this context, the Government has undertaken to activate financial and industrial policy instruments to concretely support the implementation of the entire plan”.