Bad news for Italians, and the one to bring it without hiding his face is the Minister for Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani, who from the stage of a conference organized by the Cgil Liguria on social transition explains that “this quarter the electricity bill will increase by 40%”.
A lot, considering that already in the last quarter the increase had been 20%, with a significant social impact: If theenergy increases too much, added Cingolani “our businesses are losing competitiveness and citizens, especially those with a medium-low income, struggle to pay for a basic commodity like electricity at home”.
And this, according to the minister, must be considered “because it is as important as the ecological transition”. A concept that has already been reiterated several times by the minister, that of the need to reconcile the ecological transition with its social implications, and which is also at the centre of a tense debate with many environmental realities, so much so that tomorrow Europa Verde will take to the streets to ask for the resignation of Cingolani, guilty of having defined the environmentalists as "radical chic worse than the climate catastrophe”.
“As long as I have the honor and the burden of occupying this position, I will do everything I can to ensure that the two things are never separated.”
But what is the crux of the matter? That the increase is not only due to the increase in energy demand, with a consequent increase in the cost of gas worldwide, an element that is certainly influencing the increases.
However, a large part of the overcharge comes from the so-called 'gas quotas' introduced by theXNUMX-XNUMX business days with the ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) system which requires that each company pay a fee for each ton of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere for its own production, according to the 'polluter pays' principle: producing electricity, of course, involves releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Today, CO2 prices are around 55-56 euros per ton, but according to estimates by European Commission could double between now and 2030. According to the National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises "we expect the start of concrete actions to avert the price spike. Alarms are no longer enough. It's time to take action. We need measures that can structurally intervene on the bill, starting with the reform of the general system charges that weigh especially on micro and small businesses".
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