(Telestock) – Italy 15th and therefore outside the top 10 of European countries that produce and use renewable energy. our country is burdened by the lack of simplifications at a bureaucratic level. Norway is leading the way, with its strong focus on hydroelectricity: 98% of the energy the country needs for its correct functioning is now obtained from renewable sources. These are the data – not encouraging – that emerge from a research carried out by Aceper (Association of Consumers and Producers of Renewable Energy), the association that brings together 10,000 plants producing energy from renewable sources, equal to over 7,000 members for a total installed power that exceeds 2 GWp. Aceper considered which are the 10 European countries that allow, based on their respective current regulations, to invest easily in the world of renewable energy. At the top of the list we find the northern countries: green primacy for Norway. 98% of the energy produced is obtained from renewable sources and in particular it is hydroelectric energy. Second place for Switzerland, which confirms its leadership (62%), followed by Sweden (53.9%) which in recent years has introduced numerous tax incentives for solar energy and accelerated procedures for small plants. A few points above Denmark (47%), one of the leaders in wind power. The United Kingdom also does well (43%). In the second half of the ranking, the dominance of the Nordic countries is confirmed: fifth is Finland (38.7%), sixth is Latvia (37.2%), seventh is Austria (33%) with its numerous solar plants. Closing the top 10 of the ‘renewable countries’ are France, which still saves itself with a positive 24% thanks to the large production of nuclear and hydroelectric energy, and Luxembourg (13%) in tenth position.
Italy is out of the top 10 drawn up by Aceper not because it is not an ‘interesting’ country from the point of view of the possibilities of producing renewable energy, on the contrary”, underlined Veronica Pitea, President of the Association. “We would have all the necessary elements: water, wind, abundant sun and we could easily be among the leaders in the sector. Unfortunately, however – she explained – we have a system that does not allow us to do so: France has 7-8 thousand laws that regulate renewable energy, Italy has 100,000 and consequently all the processes become complicated because every time you want to do a simplification to focus on renewables, we must first understand whether it could turn out to be in conflict with all these rules”.