With gas stocks, Italy is safe, stocks are full but we will have a problem with prices.
This was stated by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, at an
RCS
Academy
webinar
on
Repower Eu
.
“We have secured the country,
we should have a quiet winter season.
The storages are full.
We will have problems with prices
, but if the 20 ends well on the
price cap
, we will have solved the situation.
Unfortunately, we will not take away the suffering from families and businesses.
We proposed the price cap months
ago
.
The European Commission was slow, then it sped up.
We also hope that the war will end, ”the minister said.
On the entry into operation of
the Piombino regasification plant,
"I have no security," said the minister.
“I hope everyone realizes that
national security depends on it
.
If we have the regasification ship and we can't use it, it will be suicide.
There is a nimby
problem
(“not in my backyard”, local community protest,
ed
), and someone will have to take responsibility.
I was clear: the ship will stay there for 3 years, then we will move it to a non-invasive site ".
"Probably the
price cap
will be a range within which the Ttf (wholesale market for natural gas,
ed
) can vary without having these absurd volatility peaks. I would say that we are converging on this, last Friday there were the latest alignments in videoconference. Tonight there will be an informal meeting of the ministers of the most energy-intensive countries.
I believe that a compromise solution can be reached which will help to greatly limit costs
".
"The absurdity of this story is that there is gas, but the price has increased", continued Cingolani.
"We export, yet the price remains very high.
The truth is that we paid insanely the gas prices of a stock exchange which is not realistic
. The TTF is totally unhooked from reality. There is crazy volatility. We are paying for this thing and a delay in acting. We are not paying for a real shortage of gas. "
"We talked a lot about the
price cap
with all European countries - added the minister - I would say that they slowly came after us. Months ago we were alone, now the vast majority of countries want a cost limit mechanism. let's hammer on this thing. The satisfaction is that in the end we took them all with us, the dissatisfaction is that one year is too much ".
"For me it is definitely the end" of the experience of government, "
because I think there is a time for technicians and a time, which I believe has come, in which parliament must re-appropriate its prerogatives
and make its political choices. I think I did what I could, I gave it my all. It probably won't be enough, but I think my time is up. "