Blessed are the Spaniards, look how little they pay for top-ups / VIDEO

Blessed are the Spaniards, look how little they pay for refueling. Our Edoardo went to Barcelona. What’s the result? Watch the VIDEO below...

Blessed are the Spaniards, they pay half at the gas stations...

Edoardo lives between Italy and Spain, and after chatting with friends in Barcelona, he was surprised by how cheap it is to top up electricity there. So he visited the Catalan city to check in person the rate at an Endesa charging station. This company was chosen not by chance, as it is part of our Enel group, with a brand image and products very similar to those of its parent company. Well, the price in that Iberian country is 0.35 per kWh, compared to 0.72 that we pay here in Italy. That’s less than half, which explains why electricity market share is also much higher in Spain than in Italy—double. But where does this difference come from? Edoardo did some research and explains it in the video. He discusses how much electricity costs per MW here and in major European countries, as well as the role of renewables in keeping prices low in Spain.

The government’s shift in policy on renewables

And here, words fall short where the problem is real. For years, our government has viewed the development of renewable energy with skepticism, often siding with local protests from various committees opposed to new installations. “Nuclear power will eventually come,” they said. But it’s clear to everyone that atomic energy in our country might not be available until well after 2030. So what in the meantime? With these high electricity costs, companies threaten to move abroad en masse (most recently, the ceramic manufacturers from Sassuolo). Now, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso threatens to appoint commissioners to oversee projects stalled in wind and solar development. Perhaps we should have woken up sooner. And surely we won’t be able to match Spain’s installation levels in a country as less suitable as ours. But we might manage to bring down the exorbitant prices of certain goods.

Too late as ever.

– Also read / Electric cars: Italy 6 years behind the rest of Europe

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