September 18, 2024 10:31 GMT
POWER: Italy Needs to Speed Up Nuclear Plans: Lobby Group
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Italy needs to speed up plans to build out new nuclear generation capacity to be less dependent on French power imports that cause higher prices, Confindustria president, Emanuele Orsini, said, cited by Montel.
- The Italian government is seeking to create the new entity with a foreign technological partnership for the start of nuclear production in Italy, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said previously.
- The government is also working on a legislative measure that aims to reintroduce the use of nuclear energy with the latest available technologies later this year, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said on Saturday.
- This would mark a significant shift in Italy’s stance on nuclear energy. The country closed its last nuclear reactors in 1990.
- In Italy’s climate plan (PNIEC), the government estimated nuclear power could meet up to 11% to 22% of domestic energy demand in 2050.
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