Sismabonus, the super rebate mobilised 40 billion
The numbers come from the Engineers' Congress in Ancona. With the cut in rebates, it will be back to the past
Forty billion mobilised by the sismabonus, also in its super version, b>between 2020 and 2024. Whereas, from next year, it will be back to the past: without the superbonus, even earthquake safety measures will have to rely on reduced facilities. Facilities that, in the past, had guaranteed an average 800 million euro per year in investments.
The third day of the National Congress of Engineers in Ancona focused on the theme of emergencies and reconstruction, decisive in the territories of Central Italy. hydrogeological instability, earthquakes and, above all, the strategies to be put in place to prevent and stem these phenomena were discussed. Supporting the reasoning were the figures of the National Council's Study Centre, which calculated the impact of the seismbonus in recent years.
How the seismbonus is born
The subsidy - it should be remembered - was also available as an offshoot of the superbonus: the maxi-discount, in fact, did not only apply to energy efficiency. The resources used from 2020 to 2024 amounted to over 40 billion euro (although, in this context, the Cni emphasises the absence of official figures, as there are for energy efficiency). The largest part of these resources was used in higher risk areas, thus starting to change the level of vulnerability of some homes.
The investment node
From next year the superbonus will not be confirmed and already in 2025 it has seen its range of action heavily reduced. The result is that the Cni Study Centre now expects a strong contraction of investments in this area: before the superbonus it was less than a billion a year. Also because - the engineers explain - "these interventions have never fallen into an organic framework or into a sort of plan clearly defined in terms of costs, funding methods, and intervention in individual territories and in the timeframe for carrying out the works". In short, in the field of prevention, "there seems to have been a lack of long-term vision". The need for a multi-year plan was also evoked by the president of the National Council, Domenico Perrini.
The discourse on hydrogeological instability is different. hydrogeological risk has been allocated and made available 20.1 billion euro in the last 25 years, for a total of 25,795 interventions (admitted for funding but not always realised). Therefore, there is a large amount of resources that in many cases is not spent.
