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ARTICLE · 13 JUNE 2024

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In order to meet the European Union's energy and climate greenhouse gas emissions targets by 2030, EU countries need to establish a 10-year integrated national energy and climate...

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Riccardo Roversi
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Italian Energy Storage

In order to meet the European Union's energy and climate greenhouse gas emissions targets by 2030, EU countries need to establish a 10-year integrated national energy and climate plan to cover the period between 2021 and 2030.

In this way, Italy implemented its "PNIEC"1 integrated national energy and climate plan aimed at ensuring renewable energy contribute to 40% of gross final national energy consumption by 2030 and specifically to make up 65% of electricity consumption by 2030.

The PNIEC envisages the 2030 energy storage scenario to consist of 8 GW of hydroelectric pumping systems (most of which are already in place), 4GW of distributed energy storage systems (i.e. smaller scale storage systems integrated with residential, mostly photovoltaic plants – many of these distributed energy storage systems are also already in place) and 11GW of stand-alone utility scale storage facilities (which need to

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