Following the recent agreement reached by the European Council, which included among its measures for EU member countries the provision for “accelerating the simplification of authorization procedures in order to speed up the deployment of renewable energy and networks,”

Also, ACEPER (Association of Consumers and Producers of Renewable Energies), which brings together 10,000 renewable energy production plants, equivalent to over 7,000 members with a total installed capacity exceeding 2 GWp, has outlined a ten-point plan for the new government’s priorities in the renewable energy sector:

1. Energy/1: Implement existing regulations and issue new ones to facilitate the installation of photovoltaic systems on residential buildings, businesses, and underutilized agricultural areas.

2. Energy/2: Protect all companies by setting a maximum price to avoid halting business operations.

3. Energy/3: Define the selling price of energy produced from renewable sources to boost investments in the sector and accelerate the transition to renewable energy.

4. Biomethane: Make the new decree effective and simplify the procedure to speed up the conversion of existing plants from electricity production to biomethane or LNG production.

5. Incentivize Training: Strengthen incentives for companies to train and employ workers across all sectors that need rapid growth (it is estimated that the renewable energy sector alone currently lacks at least 500,000 workers at all levels).

6. Efficiency Decrees: Issue all new decrees aimed at improving the efficiency of facilities and plants.

7. Transport: Promote a plan for transitioning to green fuels to revitalize a struggling sector and make road traffic less polluting.

8. Energy Communities: Issue decrees simplifying and enhancing the development of energy communities to allow those with space but no consumption to invest with those who have consumption but no space, benefiting all involved parties.

9. Plug & Play Photovoltaics: Promote the adoption of home energy self-consumption systems to reduce energy costs for families, even in densely populated neighborhoods.

10. Redevelop Industrial Areas: Incentivize the recovery of disused industrial zones for sustainable projects to restore productivity and dignity to these areas.

“As the main representative of the renewable energy sector, I agree with Giorgia Meloni’s electoral program when she states that the first thing to do in the energy field is to increase the number of plants powered by renewable sources. At ACEPER, we also have ideas on how this can be done quickly: the sector doesn’t need large incentives but rather the effective use of existing ones, starting with the PNRR. Another crucial issue in the renewable sector is unfortunately the lack of technical/specific expertise among personnel in various ministries, which often results in nonsensical regulations that create entropy at all levels. It would be positive if the new government keeps the electoral promises made by the parties that make it up.” This was stated by Veronica Pitea, president of ACEPER.

See here the article from CosenzaOK dated 27/10/2022

“Source CosenzaOK”