(Finance) – Authorizing the half of the renewable plants ready to be made and replacing gas boilers with heat pump systems Italy could reduce i gas consumption by one third And “do without gas that comes from parts of the world we don’t like either we consider dangerous“. The CEO said so Enel, Francesco Starace, speaking to the General States of energy promoted by Italia Viva.
“It would be enough to approve, gods 95 thousand MW Of permissions required for renewable plants, at least 50-60 thousand to basically eliminate the gas from Italian energy mix and save about 20 billion cubic meters of gas the year – he said – suffice it to say that we can change the gas boiler the moment it breaks down, not before, with a heat pump and we’d pull others away 10 billions of cubic meters“.” We would thus reduce the Italian gas consumption by one third – he added – and we could do without the gas that comes from parts of the world that we do not like or consider dangerous. We could put a couple more plants into operation regasification to have the freedom to buy gas who we want in the world and not depend on pipes. If we slip into a tube we always end up in a strange country “. “We think that the sooner you do it the better because whoever moves first has one greater benefit those who move later benefit less those who stand still lose“.
“We have not benefited in an extraordinary way from this incredible ascent of the gods commodity prices nor made our customers suffer “, added Starace. “Companies who have embarked on sustainability as we have isolated their customers from this shock – he said – We have 10 million customers in Italy that thanks to the sustainable approach that we have had of the commercial campaign, they have not had price increases in their bills. Because we have set up a fixed price policy also thanks to the percentage of renewables we have but also using fossil fuels that can be fixed over a two-year horizon“. So, he continued,”we have not benefited in an extraordinary way, this incredible rise in commodity prices made our customers suffer. It’s a sustainability theme that we embraced a long time ago and that right now has its value in the fact that all those who have done with us they did not suffer this transit but were protected from this incredible turbulence “.”We haven’t had tremendous profits but we think that it is better that the profits are reasonable and sustainable over time rather than incredible and then taxed, as then it inevitably happens when these things manifest themselves “he concluded.