Save up to 10%
«A few daily behaviors are enough to save up to 10% on your bill: for example, turning off the lights and heating when we leave the house, not opening the windows if the thermo is on and turning off the PC if we don’t use it. It is also important not to exceed the temperature in the home, ie over 20 degrees », warns the Calabrese studio of Enea. With these small warnings, a family cuts waste between 2 and 10% (“on average there is about 8%”).
Italy is a historically efficient and economical country, induced to sobriety even by a century of fiscal rapacity on energy. The primary energy intensity in Italy in 2019 was equal to 90.07 toe / M € 2015, i.e. to produce goods (GDP) equal to one million euros at 2015 values, energy equal to that of 90.07 tons is needed of oil. Far less energy than the EU average of 101.7 toe / M € 2015.
Energy economist Alessandro Marangoni says: «Savings on consumption are possible with some actions, different in the immediate and medium term. Italian industry, as is well known, already has high levels of efficiency, but greater security in supplies is possible by increasing self-consumption from renewable sources. On the other hand, there is still ample room for improvement in buildings, starting with public ones (for example schools), which are often obsolete and lacking in maintenance. Even in transport there are important spaces, rejuvenating the local public transport fleet, favoring rail transport and the replacement of older vans ».
The civil sector (houses, shops, offices) absorbs 41.1% of final energy consumption, followed by transport (29.8%) and industry (20.7).
Efficiency and consumption
Good and bad. In the twenty years from 1990 to 2019, Italy increased its consumption but after 2005 it increased efficiency and went back to consuming energy as it was in the mid-1990s. Those who have been able to correct the way of consuming energy better than others has been the industry that – Enea 2021 Report on energy efficiency – has reduced consumption by 33% since 2005. More and more efficient engines, since 2007 transport has recorded a decrease of -15.3% in energy needs.
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