(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 19 - "The expensive energy is hitting heavily the businesses of commerce, hospitality and catering which in 2022, despite the containment measures already adopted by the Government, will have to support an increase in the energy bill with an overall expenditure for gas and electricity which will go from 11.3 billion euros in 2021 to 19.9 billion (+ 76%). A very high account for 1 million companies: the most affected by the pandemic and which now risk closure in many cases also due to energy increases ". This is what emerges from a Confcommercio study, carried out in collaboration with Nomisma Energia. For the president of Confcommercio, Carlo Sangalli, it is "an urgency because it is necessary to intervene immediately in a structural way: from foreign dependence, to system burdens, to compensation ofincrease in fuel prices on the transport and logistics chain. As well as environmental sustainability, it must also be economic and social ". (ANSA).
Bills: Confcommercio, + 76% for the tertiary sector, the bill is close to 20bn
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"Expensive energy is heavily affecting businesses in the trade, hospitality and catering businesses which in 2022, despite the containment measures already adopted by the Government, will have to sustain an increase in their energy bills with an expense that ... (ANSA)