Italy should embrace solar, not gas to hit raised climate ambition

Instead of splurging €11 billion of EU cash on uneconomic new generation capacity, the Italian authorities-and electricity bill payers-would be better served investing in a mix of current clean power technologies which would include almost 17 GW more solar capacity.Deploying a mixture of renewable energy measures instead of planned gas-fired electricity plants in Italy would drive demand for almost 17 GW of solar generation capacity as well as producing power at a cheaper cost for Italian taxpayers. That is the headline finding of the second Foot off the Gas report published by London-based environmental ...

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