An unprecedented relay

, in a sector that has become strategic, so much so that it has entered the sphere of "national security", with the change of the name of the

old

ministry of transition, which has now become the "ministry of the environment and energy security".

Thus - according to some sources - one of the first fruits of the

climate of strong institutional collaboration

, with a sense of the state, of the former premier Mario Draghi with the prime minister Giorgia Meloni, brings "as a dowry" the technician who helped lead the Italy - in the 8 months of the war - to fill gas storage to the brim to allow the country to go through the winter almost unscathed;

although this, apparently, is not at all obvious.

As the

What is certain is that Roberto Cingolani, physicist and former minister, will remain at work for the new government "a little longer": nothing written - he assures - because "the details will be defined in the morning".

in fact, soon there will be the handover between him and his successor, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, who yesterday at the end of the council of ministers announced the start of this collaboration. 

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regasifier

First of all, price caps and regasifiers 


"The idea - Cingolani tells La Stampa - already discussed informally,

is to close all dossiers that are still open

, the most urgent issues starting from the price cap and regasifiers".

To explain the usefulness of this work to be conducted in four hands is always the former number one of the Mite: "It is such a mass of problems and arguments that anyone who came to the ministry

would take one or two months

to take everything in hand and understand: in this way I can guarantee immediate continuity ".


And time, on gas and energy (read also: avoiding a paralysis for companies) does not seem at all an honest man: interrupting the action that seeks to lead the country towards energy independence from Putin would be counterproductive, and devastating.

It is therefore necessary to keep - in the form of "advisor" - the super technician who has been in

Algeria

,

Congo

(to name two) in recent months together with Eni's number one, Descalzi and Draghi himself, to close fruitful strategic agreements for the 'Italy to have gas, energy, autonomy.

Handle

Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment

The terms of the 


Cingolani agreement

will not have any delegation

, nor

signatory powers

and not even "commissioner powers" (general

Figliuolo

con Covid style): as was hypothesized at the beginning of the summer: "I'm not even paid and I do it for spirit of service - specifies Cingolani interviewed by La Stampa - and it will be a timed assignment to allow the new minister to take everything in hand ”.

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Pipeline Pipes

The regasification plan


On the energy

supply security

front , the plan - rattles off Cingolani - provides for the activation of

two ships

destined for regasification (one in Piombino which should come into operation in the spring, the second in Ravenna) thus increasing by "10 billion of cubic meters of our storage capacity and complete the decoupling from gas supplies from Russia by next year ".

handle

Campanella, Giorgia Meloni Mario Draghi

The role of "advisor"

for the energy of Palazzo Chigi was agreed with Draghi and Meloni, "as part of this great handover work that was done by the premier" - continues the former minister - with the specific objective of finishing the work on the price cap and the one on the first regasification plant, that of Piombino, which just this week got the green light from the services conference ". 

Rainews

interview with Roberto Cingolani

"I hope this crisis doesn't last five years"

"There will be work to do", sighs Cingolani with La Stampa.

And then?

"Then

I hope that this crisis will not last five years

- replies the former minister - so afterwards I will resume working as I have already said for some time".