“We have a very positive performance in 2021”, explains the Minister of Economy, Daniele Franco, indicating that “the level of needs was much lower than expected for the trend of the economy and revenues in general very positive. convinced that a trend balance below the target will emerge and we are using this margin. Each decision depends on the evolution of circumstances. We expect a more pronounced recovery from the second quarter and subsequent ones, and that the situation will improve and that with the Def we will be able to restore the spending cuts applied to the Mef budget at this time “to finance the new decree.
Resources – 5.5 billion go to households and businesses. The interventions for families total 1.8 billion on system charges, 400 million on VAT and 2.6-2.7 billion on social bonuses, for a total of about 4 billion. , 8 billion. On the business side, Franco explained, the other 1.2 billion of system charges on electricity and gas, the intervention on energy-consuming, the latest intervention on gas-consuming for 2.8-9 billion and then 700 million shared between regions, services and local authorities. For cars, there is an allocation of one billion per year, for 8 years.
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Stop system charges until June 30th – Three billion is allocated to block system charges also in the second quarter, that is, until June 30th. With these resources, the Arera will cancel the rates “applied to domestic users and non-domestic low voltage users, for other uses, with available power up to 16.5 kW” and “to users with available power equal to or greater than 16, 5 kW, also connected in medium and high / very high voltage or for public lighting or charging electric vehicles in places accessible to the public “.
Gas VAT confirmed at 5% – Also in the second quarter – therefore for the invoices issued for the estimated or actual consumption of the months of April, May and June 2022 – the consumption of gas for civil and industrial use is subject to the VAT rate of 5 percent.
Energy and gas social bonus strengthened – For the second quarter, the concessions relating to tariffs for the supply of electricity granted to economically disadvantaged domestic customers and to domestic customers in serious health conditions are “redetermined by the Arera, in order to minimize the increases in supply costs, provided for for the second quarter of 2022, up to an amount of 500 million euros “.
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Energy-intensive companies – For companies with a high consumption of electricity that have experienced an increase in costs of more than 30% compared to 2019 “an extraordinary contribution is recognized in partial compensation of the higher costs incurred, in the form of a tax credit, equal to 20 percent of the expenses incurred for the energy component purchased and actually used in the second quarter of 2022 “. To companies with a high consumption of natural gas “, in partial compensation of the higher costs incurred for the purchase of natural gas, an extraordinary contribution, in the form of a tax credit, equal to 15 per cent of the expenditure incurred for the purchase of the same gas, consumed in the first quarter of the year 2022, for energy uses other than thermoelectric uses “.
Renewable energy sources – The decree provides, explained the Minister of Transition Roberto Cingolani, a “formidable simplification for plants of a renewable nature, mainly photovoltaic”. It is a question of facilitating as much as possible the expansion of photovoltaic technologies, mainly for self-consumption for plants up to 200 thousand Kw, a single module will be created “. There is a fund” to help small and medium-sized enterprises so that these actions come “. there is also an important simplification for other renewable activities, such as geothermal, for plants under 2 megawatts, both for thermal use and for use in electricity production “.
Gas – The first ‘leg’ of the government’s plan is to increase production, an effort to which Eni – CEO Claudio Descalzi talked about it today with shareholders – has already said that it is “ready and available”. “Between what is already in production and what we can increase, we can reach a portfolio of about 5 billion cubic meters, which being gas produced by national fields, with appropriate rules, through the Gse group can be substantially distributed at a price extremely more advantageous than the normal market “, explained Cigolani. Then there is the goal of a general optimization of storage to always start from a minimum of 90% filling.
Biofuels – Among the interventions of the decree to contain energy prices there is also “a slightly more technological investment in biofuels, especially pure ones, from sustainable supply chains”, some of which come from castor oil. The goal is to reach “an emission of 200 thousand tons in 2023 and an annual progression of + 50 thousand tons every year”, which also allows us to reach the percentage required by the new EU directive, that is 16% of biofuels by 2030. ” To this we add an already covered fund for further development on biofuels “. The Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani recalled that “today a diesel engine, for example that of a truck, can work with these fuels, polluting much less, without necessarily having to change” the structure.
Energy investments in the south – A 290 million fund arrives in 2022-2023 – intended for the tax credit for investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency plants in the southern regions, namely Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily.
Automotive – There is a billion on the sector a year for 8 years to accompany the transition process. “Public intervention is important but private initiative is more important, this serves to convince people to invest alongside the State”, explains the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti. The decree that will establish the incentives for the purchase of environmentally compatible cars, not only electric, is coming, because there is not only the electric, and above all in the transition phase we will also have to consider the hybrid.
Sports clubs – A further contribution of 20 million euros goes to the amateur sports associations and clubs most affected by the increases, with specific reference to the amateur sports associations and clubs that manage sports facilities and swimming pools.
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