Bill decree, who crushes the government on renewables
Anev, the wind energy association, protests against the government decree on expensive bills, which cuts the revenues of renewable producers. "It is as if to combat Covid-19 it was decided to strike vaccines"
The National Wind Energy Association (ANEV), which brings together the operators of the Italian wind power chain, protests against the government's decision to cut the revenues of energy producers from renewable sources.
THE DECREE ON THE DEAR BILLS
Today the Council of Ministers approved a decree on the prices of electricity and gas bills, which also increased in the first quarter of 2022 mainly due to the high prices – for several months now – of natural gas, the most used fuel for electricity generation.
The draft of the decree, as reported by Energia Oltre , introduces a "compensation mechanism" on the price of energy produced by renewable plants, with the aim of reducing the system charges present in the bill. The mechanism will be active from 1 February to 31 December 2022.
High energy prices are not only a problem for families but also for businesses, especially energy-intensive ones, which are seeing production costs increase significantly.
WHAT ANEV SAYS
In the press release, ANEV writes that "this situation of soaring energy costs is […] caused by the growing cost of producing energy from fossil sources, in particular from gas, while renewable sources by their nature have a fixed cost of production, not burning fuel ".
The association thinks that the government, rather than cut the remuneration of renewable energy producers, "should have intervened both in past years through the promised and not implemented energy transition, and through adequate supply systems for the necessary resources". And he complains about the delays in the authorization procedures for energy plants, "blocked" – he writes – "by the Superintendencies".
“To the damage of not hitting those who are the cause of the increase in prices, that is fossils”, ANEV continues, “add the insult that instead it is precisely those who are affected who contribute to reducing these costs; in fact, renewables, and wind power in particular, have for some years been able to produce electricity at lower costs than those of fossils, and in this way are bringing down the cost of electricity in our country ".
According to the association, the proposal to penalize renewables and not gas due to the energy price crisis "is as if to combat COVID-19 it was decided to hit vaccines, masks and hospitals".
ANEV'S PROPOSAL
ANEV proposes to the government to focus on renewable sources "without delay" and to "discourage the use of fossil sources by cutting the huge subsidies recognized to them".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/eolico-crisi-energia-anev/ on Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:23:48 +0000.