The national targets set by the government, contained in the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan - PNIEC 2024 pose new challenges to the Italian electricity sector, by 2030, it will be necessary to almost triple photovoltaic and wind power capacity, to achieve a 63% penetration of renewables.

As Confindustria has repeatedly pointed out, significantly increasing energy production from renewable sources is necessary not only to achieve the decarbonisation targets set by the Green Deal but also to rapidly reduce our country's energy dependency on fossil fuels.

Confindustria has long expressed the need to streamline and simplify the complex framework of measures for the authorisation of RES plants.

The legislative decree on administrative regimes for the production of energy from renewable sources meets this requirement, however it also provides for the introduction of a number of bureaucratic constraints and burdens compared to the rules in force todaywhich risk defeating the very purpose of the measure, such as the request for a suitable building title applied in a generalised manner also to interventions today carried out under free building, or the provision of acquiring opinions from the Superintendencies also for refurbishment and upgrading of facilities, which have already obtained the necessary authorisations.

There is also a lack of transitional rulesand the regulation of the main types of storage facilities and the related simplifications already provided for.

The text also still does not provide for the possibility of convening, for the purpose of issuing the Single Authorisation, the conference of services in asynchronous and simplified modeFinally, no discipline is introduced for the authorised and not yet implemented projects and missing a coordination with expropriation regulations.