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ENERGY-POWERING COMPANIES: TAX CREDIT AT 20%
The innovations of the Energy decree first of all provide for an extraordinary contribution for energy-intensive companies based on the tax credit which concerns only companies that have experienced an increase in the cost per kWh of more than 30 percent in 2019: in this case the tax credit is equal to 20 per cent of the expenses incurred for the energy component purchased and actually used in the second quarter of 2022. All this for 700 million euros of higher charges.
INCOMING CUT FOR BILLS SYSTEM CHARGES
There is a new cut for bills in the second quarter of 2022: the draft provision provides that Arera cancels "the rates relating to general system charges applied to domestic users and non-domestic users in low voltage, for other uses, with available power up to 16.5 kW. To this end, additional resources amounting to 1,800 million euros are transferred to the Cassa per i energy e environmental services (CSEA), by 31 May 2022 ”. To reduce the effects of price increases in the electricity sector, ARERA also cancels, for the second quarter of 2022, "the rates relating to general system charges applied to users with available power equal to or greater than 16.5 kW, also connected in medium and high / very high voltage or for public lighting or charging electric vehicles in places accessible to the public. To this end, additional resources of 1,200 million euros are transferred to the CSEA by 31 May 2022 ".
REDUCTION OF VAT AND GENERAL CHARGES IN THE GAS SECTOR
The administrations of methane gas used for combustion for civil and industrial uses "accounted for in the invoices issued for the estimated or actual consumption of the months of April, May and June 2022, are subject to the VAT rate of 5 percent". Furthermore, "if the supplies referred to in the first period are accounted for on the basis of estimated consumption, the VAT rate of 5 per cent is also applied to the difference deriving from the amounts recalculated on the basis of actual consumption referable, also as a percentage, to the months of April , May and June 2022 ". In this case, the cost is calculated at 591 million. For the second quarter of 2022 "the effects of price increases in the natural gas sector, ARERA will reduce, for the same quarter, the rates relating to general system charges for the gas sector up to the amount of 480 million euros ".
STRENGTHENING OF THE ELECTRICITY AND GAS SOCIAL BONUS
For the second quarter of the year 2022, the concessions relating to the tariffs for the supply of electricity granted to economically disadvantaged domestic customers and to domestic customers in serious health conditions and the compensation for the supply of natural gas "are redetermined by ARERA, in order to minimize the increases in supply costs, expected for the second quarter of 2022, up to the amount of 500 million euros ".
EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTION, IN THE FORM OF A TAX CREDIT, IN FAVOR OF COMPANIES WITH A HIGH CONSUMPTION OF NATURAL GAS
Companies with a high consumption of natural gas "are granted an extraordinary contribution, in the form of a tax credit, equal to 15 per cent of the costs incurred for the purchase, in partial compensation of the higher costs incurred for the purchase of natural gas. of the same gas, consumed in the first quarter of the year 2022, for energy uses other than thermoelectric uses, if the reference price of natural gas, calculated as the average, referring to the same quarter, of the reference prices of the Intra-day Market (MI- GAS) "" has undergone an increase of more than 30% of the corresponding average price referred to the first quarter of 2019 ".
“It is a company with a high consumption of natural gas that operates in one of the sectors referred to in Annex 1 to the decree of the Minister of Ecological Transition of 21 December 2021, the adoption of which was communicated in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic no. 5 of 8 January 2021 and consumed, in the first calendar quarter of the year 2022, a quantity of natural gas for energy uses not less than 25% of the volume of natural gas indicated in Article 3, paragraph 1, of the same decree, at net of the consumption of natural gas used in thermoelectric uses ". The charges are valued at € 522.2 million for the year 2022.
THE UNIQUE MODEL FOR RENEWABLE PLANTS BETWEEN 50 KW AND 200 KW
With the decree of the Minister of Ecological Transition "the conditions and methods for the extension of the simplified single model (…) to plants with power greater than 50 kW and up to 200 kW are identified".
REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOVOLTAIC IN AGRICULTURAL AREA
"In article 65 of the decree-law 24 January 2012, n. 1, converted, with modifications, by the law 24 March 2012, n. 27, the following is added after paragraph 1-sexies: '1-septies. Paragraph 1 does not apply to agro-voltaic plants which, while adopting construction solutions other than those referred to in paragraph 1-quater, provide for the implementation of the monitoring system referred to in paragraph 1-quinquies for the purpose of verifying and certifying the continuity of agricultural and pastoral activity in the area concerned and occupy a total area not exceeding XX percent of the farm's agricultural area '".
SIMPLIFICATION FOR RENEWABLE PLANTS IN SUITABLE AREAS
"In the authorization procedures for electricity production plants powered by renewable sources on suitable areas," the following are inserted: "including those for the adoption of the environmental impact assessment measure," reads the draft.
RATIONALIZATION AND SIMPLIFICATION OF THE AUTHORIZATION PROCEDURES FOR OFFSHORE SYSTEMS
Simplifications arrive for the construction of "off-shore plants" "including works for connection to the grid" "also with reference to the construction of electricity production plants powered by renewable sources located in areas not subject to constraints incompatible with the settlement of off-shore plants ". The agreement will be “with the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility, after consulting the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies for the aspects of competence”.
FUND FOR SELF-CONSUMPTION FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES FOR SMEs
“In order to promote the production of renewable electricity and self-consumption for small and medium-sized enterprises, the 'Renewable SME Fund' is set up in the forecast of the Ministry of Ecological Transition” with an endowment of 267 million euros. “Out of the resources of the Fund (…) non-repayable capital grants are granted to small and medium-sized enterprises (…) for the construction of energy production plants from renewable sources up to 200 kW. The possibility of accessing the dedicated collection and on-site energy exchange service remains unaffected ”.
CONTRIBUTION IN THE FORM OF A TAX CREDIT FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE SOUTH REGIONS
"Companies that make investments in the regions of Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily aimed at obtaining better energy efficiency and promoting the production of energy from renewable sources, until 31 December 2023 are granted a contribution in the form of a tax credit, to the maximum extent permitted by regulation (EU) no. 651/2014 of the Commission, of 17 June 2014, which can only be used in offsetting ".
SIMPLIFICATIONS FOR CLOSED CIRCUIT GEOTHERMAL PROBE SYSTEMS
"Within sixty days from the date of entry into force of this provision, the requirements for the installation of heat production plants from geothermal resources, ie geothermal probes, intended for heating and air conditioning, are established by decree of the Minister of Ecological Transition of buildings. The same decree referred to in paragraph 1 also identifies the cases in which the simplified authorization procedure referred to in Article 6 of Legislative Decree no. 28, as well as the cases in which the installation can be considered free building activity, provided that these plants have a power of less than 2 MW and exchange only thermal energy with the ground, using a vector fluid that circulates in special geothermal probes placed at contact with the ground, without making withdrawals or introducing fluids into the subsoil ".
MEASURES TO FACE THE DEAR ENERGY EMERGENCY THROUGH THE STRENGTHENING OF THE SECURITY OF SUPPLY OF NATURAL GAS AT FAIR PRICES
"In order to contribute to the strengthening of the security of natural gas supplies at reasonable prices to end customers and, at the same time, to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, within thirty days from the date of entry into force of this decree, the GSE initiates, on directive of the Minister of Ecological Transition, procedures for the long-term supply of natural gas of national production by the holders of gas cultivation concessions. The GSE invites the holders of concessions for the cultivation of natural gas, falling on the mainland and in the territorial sea, to express interest in adhering to the procedures (…) communicating the programs of natural gas production of the concessions in place, for the years from 2022 to 2031, as well as a list of possible developments, increases or restorations of natural gas production for the same period in the concessions they hold, the maximum timing for disbursement, the expected production profile and the related necessary investments. The provision referred to in the first period applies to concessions whose cultivation plants fall in whole or in part in areas considered suitable under the Plan for the sustainable energy transition of suitable areas, approved by decree of the Minister for Ecological Transition 28 December 2021 , even in the case of unproductive concessions or in conditions of voluntary suspension of activities. The aforementioned communication is made to the GSE, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and ARERA, within thirty days from the invitation to express interest pursuant to the first period ".
“The environmental assessment procedures are carried out by the PNRR-PNIEC Technical Commission” and the GSE “stipulates long-term purchase contracts, with a maximum duration of ten years, with verification of the terms at the end of the fifth year, with the concessionaires”. Furthermore, the GSE, "with one or more procedures, offers the volumes of gas (…) at the conditions and prices referred to in paragraph 4 to industrial end customers, according to award criteria on a pluralistic basis defined by decree of the Ministers of the Economy and finance and ecological transition, in agreement with the Minister of Economic Development ”. GSE also "is authorized to issue guarantees for the benefit of dealers".
CONTRIBUTION OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE TO NATIONAL ENERGY RESILIENCE
"In order to contribute to the sustainable growth of the country, the decarbonisation of the energy system and the pursuit of national energy resilience, the Ministry of Defense, also through Difesa Servizi SpA, assigns in concession or directly uses, in whole or in part, the assets of the military state property or any title in use by the same Ministry, to install plants for the production of energy from renewable sources, also by resorting to the resources of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Mission 2, to cover the costs, agreement between
PROVISIONS TO INCREASE THE SAFETY OF NATURAL GAS SUPPLIES
"In order to increase the safety of natural gas supplies with particular reference to customer protection needs" the Minister of the ecological transition "adopts, within 30 days from the date of entry into force of this decree, measures pursuant to Article 1 , paragraph 1, of the legislative decree 1 June 2011, n. 93, as well as safeguard measures referred to in article 4 of the same legislative decree 1 June 2011, n. 93, aimed at: a) optimizing the gas injection cycle in national storage, also by means of particular operating conditions of the storage, the relative methods of allocation of the modulation storage space and the relative injection obligations, to bring to a level of filling of at least 90 per cent of the national storage capacities available, depending on the possible scenarios of use of the gas in storage in the winter supply cycle, starting from the contractual storage year 2022-2023; b) ensure that the modulation service referred to in Article 18 of Legislative Decree 23 May 2000, n. 164, is ensured primarily through the use of natural gas storage; c) to promote, during the winter supply cycle, the maintenance of the filling state of the storage, also through the use of counter-flow gas injections; d) establish economic mechanisms to make available additional volumes of natural gas from the interconnection points with gas pipelines not interconnected to the European pipeline network and in the liquefied natural gas regasification terminals, in order to counteract the emergence of emergency situations ". These measures “are also adopted through specific guidelines to transport and storage companies, as well as to the managers of liquefied natural gas plants operating on the national territory, after consulting ARERA. ARERA implements the measures referred to in the first period falling within the scope of its competences ".
RECONVERSION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR
"In order to encourage the green transition, research, reconversion and requalification of the automotive sector, as well as for the recognition of incentives for the purchase of non-polluting vehicles, a fund has been established in the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development for the year 2022 and each of the years from 2023 to 2030 "of which, however, the draft does not yet provide precise figures.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/tutte-le-novita-del-decreto-energia/ on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:50:42 +0000.