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This is the case for hydrogen in the 'hard-to-abate' industrial sectors: the EUR 640 million originally allocated to the investment, the report says, has stumbled in the 'objective circumstances that require a general rethinking of the measure', which has appeared in a market unprepared to develop adequate demand to absorb it. The funds will be diverted to investment in the development of biomethane, a renewable gas obtained from waste and agricultural residues.

"A pragmatic choice," according to the executive document, which, thanks to this additional endowment, "will allow Italy to reach a biomethane production capacity of 2.3 billion cubic metres per year by June 2026. All this, however, through a postponement of at least six months of the deadline, 'made necessary,' the government justifies itself, 'in light of the outbreak of Psa (swine fever, ed.) affecting Piedmont, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna'.

The difficult race towards the targets agreed with Brussels also involves the promotion of renewable energy through energy communities and self-consumption. In this case, the choice of reserving funding only for municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants did not turn out to be a happy one: given the low number of requests received that were deemed eligible, the government has therefore extended the intervention to municipalities with up to 50,000 inhabitants with last week's Ministerial Decree "as they are home to numerous companies that consume energy in the central hours of the day, while domestic users tend to consume in the morning and evening".