Optimism on the European ok to the roof on the gas price, but it sends a

warning to sailors

, if there will not be "let's go alone", so in the wide-ranging interview given to the newspaper Il messaggero, the minister of ecological transition, Roberto Cingolani , which says: "

Without the regasification plant in Piombino, we risk a gas deficit

"

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Countermeasures to cut gas prices nationwide

We must "hope for a European measure: we are making every effort to ensure that September 30 arrives (when the EU will meet precisely because of the gas ceiling, ed), and if we do not sign ourselves, we hope that there is a clear plan that someone else will sign - adds the minister -

but if this does not go it will be necessary to find countermeasures to cut the price of gas at the national level ".   


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The minister does not speak of an Italian price ceiling (in the event that the European agreement cannot be found): "Not really, because we would become an unfavorable market - he stresses - but we should buy gas and resell it at lower prices: at that point, however, the operators must be compensated for the difference ", says Cingolani, who underlines how the problem" is the

cost for the public purse

". 

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"Gas deficit risk", without the Piombino regasification plant


"With gas at these levels, there was talk of costs around € 150 per megawatt hour:

it is time for Europe to act as a market price

, given that three quarters of the gas entering in a tube on the planet, they go to Europe ", thus the minister of ecological transition, who reiterates - as already stated - the importance of the regasification plant in Piombino:" If we do not put the regasifier in Piombino,

we risk having LNG available without being able to using and running a shortage of gas

- he highlights - is also important for the storage of the following winter ".

"But I am confident that the territories understand that national energy security is at stake". 

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Consumption, bills, increases

Gas, "We want a free but not crazy market"


Returning to the price cap, he adds: "The Italian proposal speaks of a temporary ceiling of six months - he highlights - we want a free market, but not crazy: also because

until we decouple prices of renewables from those of gas, these too are stellar

".