"We are in a bad situation with renewables, but we could be in a very good situation in the next few years, until 2030. Wind and solar cover only 3% of the world's energy consumption, and we have never burned so much coal, gas and oil as in 2023. But We can still reach our goal of reducing emissions by 43% by 2030."
The president of Enel, Paolo Scaroni, said this while speaking at the Conference of Ambassadors of the Order of Malta in Rome.
"The world has invested 4 trillion dollars in renewables - explained Scaroni -. But to reach the 2030 objectives, we should invest three times as much as we have invested so far. All this is feasible. Realistic, perhaps not, but we must do it".
"We have the wind and the sun - continued the president of Enel -, we have the technologies (increasingly efficient), we have the raw materials, we have the economic convenience (renewables cost less than hydrocarbons), we have the political motivation (renewables are national, they do not depend on other countries). We have all the ingredients to achieve the result. There is no sense of urgency on everyone's part, which tells us that we must move immediately."
To a question on nuclear power, Scaroni replied "I think that with the technologies we have, the goal of zero emissions is impossible without nuclear power. 54 reactors are being built in the world. Only the Italians think it is dead. The IEA itself says that nuclear power must triple to reach net zero. But technologies evolve, who knows what we will have in 2035... I really like solar from space."
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