Energy, industry, growth

The development of the industrial supply chain between regulatory evolution and investments

Energy transition is the key to simultaneously strengthening energy security, competitiveness, and decarbonization. In this journey, electrification from renewable sources represents a cornerstone, but it must be accompanied by a balanced mix that includes natural gas as a resource for flexibility and security, along with networks and storage systems.
Today, renewables represent an available solution and an industrial driver for the country: they could mobilize up to 100 billion euros in investments by 2027, generating an impact on GDP of about 85 billion euros and tens of thousands of new qualified jobs. However, to transform this potential into concrete results, it is necessary to reduce administrative complexity, ensure regulatory certainty, and develop effective and efficient market mechanisms. The results of the transitional FERX, MACSE, and Energy Release suggest that medium-long term negotiation is able to transfer the benefits of the transition to the industrial supply chain and the national production system. These mechanisms, if properly implemented, could allow the 150 GW of renewable plants awaiting authorization to generate competitive and stable prices for businesses and consumers. This would encourage new investments in renewable capacity, repowering operations, flexible and programmable production capacity, and storage systems.

Transmission and distribution networks are the enabling infrastructure of this process of secure and competitive transition. Also on this front, therefore, it is essential to accelerate investments through the definition of a regulatory framework that gives certainty to the operators required to implement them, with the aim of making the national electricity grid safer, more resilient, and interconnected. No less important is human capital and its training and reskilling, considering the evolution of market mechanisms and technologies that require increasingly technical and digital skills.

The Elettricità Futura event will be an opportunity for a discussion with institutions and stakeholders of the national electricity sector on the evolution of market mechanisms as a lever for concrete solutions, capable of generating works, industrial supply chains, growth, and security for the country.

Program

Moderator:
Laura Serafini, Il Sole 24 Ore

Introduction
Gianni Vittorio Armani, President of Elettricità Futura

Keynote speech
Aurelio Regina, Delegate for Energy, Confindustria 

Round table I: industrial perspective
Angelo Peppetti, Head of Credit, Italian Banking Association (ABI)
Monica Iacono, CEO Engie Italia
Nicola Monti, CEO Edison
Hannelore Rocchio, Power Generation & Marketing Director Eni

Round table II: regulatory perspective
Federico Boschi, Head of Energy Department MASE
Giuseppe Argirò, CEO CVA
Guido Bortoni, President CESI
Pietro Pacchione, Head of Proj. Dev. and Asset Mgmt Tages