(Adnkronos) - “Il dibattito sul nucleare intercetta il tema di come colmare, una volta che saremo al 60% dell’autonomia energetica, il divario che resta per arrivare 100%. Ad oggi, parlando con qualunque nuclearista, nessuno vede la necessità di rallentare le rinnovabili. Il mio auspicio è che quindi non si rallenti e che si continui ad andare avanti a investire. Questo si può fare da subito, perché la tecnologia c'è già”. Così l’amministratore delegato di A2a Renato Mazzoncini, in occasione della presentazione dell’aggiornamento del Piano Strategico 2024-2035, svoltasi a Milano.
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00:00What is the future of renewable energy?
00:04The nuclear debate is about how to fill the gap between 60% and 100% once we are at 60% energy autonomy.
00:14So, even today, talking to any nuclear engineer, no one sees the need to slow down renewables.
00:21So my advice is, let's not slow them down, let's keep investing.
00:26And this can be done immediately, because the technology is already there, the solar panels have already dropped in price significantly compared to the inflation that was there in 2022.
00:35There are all the conditions to do it, the batteries are going down at very low prices, in short, everything is certainly feasible.
00:42On the other hand, I am the first to argue that we cannot reasonably exceed 60% autonomy with renewable sources,
00:51so we have to understand how to manage the 100% complement, which can come from imports.
00:57Already today, Italy imports energy from France, Montenegro, Greece.
01:00We are building a cable to import it from North Africa, from Tunisia, with Tern.
01:04It can come from gas plants, or with hydrogen blending, like our plant in Monfalcone, or with carbon capture and storage.
01:12So projects like those of Eniesnam are interesting to keep an eye on, or with nuclear.
01:21Certainly today I do not see the possibility for these technologies to lower the price of energy,
01:27because the data that has emerged so far, even on nuclear,
01:31report a cost of energy production around 100 Euro per megawatt hour, which is the current cost of energy.
01:36So I believe that at this point the priority is to accelerate renewables for two reasons.
01:41The first is to increase energy autonomy, and the second is to lower the price of energy,
01:45because the only technologies that can lower the price of energy today are renewables.
01:50Is it a concern that there may be a smaller investment in renewables,
01:53if, as the President Trump announced, a policy on fossil fuels is carried out?
02:00No, I don't see it, because the rules in Europe will remain focused on decarbonization,
02:06so I don't see the market for increasing fossil fuels in Europe.
02:12Today I think we are going in the right direction.
02:15Oil and carbon production is already very low in Europe,
02:20and gas production, however, is not linked to American imports, if not in small quantities.
02:26If you think of Italy, the supplies from Algeria have been replaced with supplies from Russia,
02:33from Libya, from Azerbaijan, and therefore I don't see them impacted by American dynamics.