(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 29 - In 2020 in Italy investments for energy efficiency in the industrial sector (just over 2 billion euros, of which 90% in hardware technologies and only 8% in software for monitoring cycles productive) decreased by 19.6% compared to the previous year, but it is not all Covid's fault. A slowdown was already underway in 2018-2019, after the growth of the 2015-2017 three-year period, the causes of which are to be found in an uncertain regulatory framework (in particular for White Certificates) and aimed in the opposite directions to those reported by operators as necessary to resume growth . The Digital Energy Efficiency Report 2021, drawn up by Energy &Strategy Group of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano and presented today.
Almost 20% of investments in hardware solutions concerned interventions on the production process (373 million euros), 18% cogeneration plants (350 million) and 15% efficient combustion systems (around 300 million), 12% lighting (240 million); in the rear Hvac systems, electric motors, inverters and compressed air systems (between 7% and 10% of total investments). The 168 million euros invested in software solutions, on the other hand, focused on basic monitoring and sensors (over 65% of the total).
"2021 brought with it a further reform of the White Certificates, but the direction is still the wrong one, because it did not take into account any of the proposals made by companies in the sector - comments Davide Chiaroni, Deputy Director of the E&S Group -. which translates into a risk for the industrial sector linked to energy efficiency, as an investor or as a supplier of technologies or services. The approval by the European Union of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan is certainly good news, because the resources allocated to the Transition Plan 4.0 according to our estimates, they could cancel the negative effect of Covid by 2023 ". (HANDLE).