The minister of ecological transition, Roberto Cingolani

  • Electricity bill, Cingolani: "40% increase in the next quarter"

  • The Spanish recipe against rising bills angers the nuclear industry

  • Cingolani opens up to nuclear power: "Going beyond ideologies".

    The controversy is triggered

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September 16, 2021 "It is not a question of words, it is a question of the market. It is clear to everyone that gas is constantly increasing, and being the raw material to produce electricity, we have an important effect on the bill. About 80 % of the increases come from gas ". The Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani says this in an interview with Radio Anch'io, on Radio


Uno Rai.



"Now the real important thing is to accelerate our process of installing renewables and thus we are free from the cost of gas as quickly as possible", urges Cingolani, in this "the Simplification dl has done an enormous job, we estimate to go down from 1,200 days average authorization time for a plant about 1/5 ".



"We need to think about how the bill is constructed and calculated. Each country has its own recipe. The calculation method needs to be rewritten a bit, we are doing it in these hours, we are working", continued Cingolani. In the meantime, the decree being examined by the Council of Ministers could contain the increase in energy bills - announces Cingolani - by intervening on system charges. The Minister had assured that "the government is strongly committed to mitigating the cost of bills due to these international situations and to ensure that the transition to more sustainable energies is rapid and does not penalize families". A possible intervention on VAT could instead be addressed in the next budget law.



On nuclear power "I have absolutely not changed my mind and things remain as they are: I told students that the new generation plants are not mature, but in the next few years we will see what will happen and it would be important, if they were safe, to evaluate their use , because climate change is a problem that will last a century. Now we cannot do anything because there is a referendum that says 'no' to the old plants and the new ones are not there now ", underlined the minister confirming the statements of the the previous day issued by the M5S leader Giuseppe Conte: "Minister Cingolani has absolutely guaranteed me that the nuclear horizon will not be here in Italy, we have had the full guarantee".