European green deal, new way between competitiveness needs and decarbonisation
Between geopolitical challenges and climate targets, Europe rethinks the Green Deal: incentives for renewables, new bank for decarbonisation and focus on network security
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Europe is updating its course towards the Green deal, attempting to outline a more pragmatic way forward that can combine industry's competitiveness needs with environmental ones. The Clean Industrial Deal presented in February is a first step towards a new regulatory framework for state aid, for example, with preferential routes for projects related to renewables and decarbonisation, and towards concrete support for the transition, with the proposed creation of an industrial decarbonisation bank, with the aim of mobilising 100 billion in funding.
Competition with non-European countries, China in primis, gas and electricity prices, which are heavy especially for Italy, and the new American policies on the environment, which under the aegis of Donald Trump have triggered a return to fossil fuels, are some of the pieces to be considered in order to reshape a European path. For some observers, the path of renewables and clean technologies must be pursued with even more conviction to reach a level of energy autonomy on which China and the US are further ahead. The recent Spanish blackout also shines a new spotlight on the security of an energy system that, with the growing penetration of clean sources, solar above all, needs investment and upgrading, starting with electricity transmission networks.
23 MAY 2025
European green deal on the test bench
The protagonists: Sissi Bellomo (Il Sole 24 Ore), Paolo Scaroni (Enel chairman), Davide Tabarelli (chairman and founder Nomisma Energia)
