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.jpg) Electricity: risk of crisis in Italy?
During a Einaudi Foundation conference in Rome, the chairman of the Electric Network Board, Salvatore Machì, indicated a crisis forecast for the Italian electrical system between 2003 and 2004. The nature of the crisis' spectre is tied into an offer that is inferior to the country's actual demand. Just during 2000 there was a peak of maximum demand quantified in 50 thousand Mw against an availability of 53,7 thousand Mw. For 2002 the situation will still be managed with current supplies, whereas for 2003 crisis scenarios will be unavoidable if network expansion is not immediately planned.Private electricity producers agree with Machì's thesis, however, a different view is held by Enel's Institutional relations director, Massimo Romano, according to whom, as well as the black-out risk being remote, it would penalise the National electricity system to handle those costs, for new systems, which are out disproportionate compared to a demand that normally arrives at 50 thousand Mw. Machì's suggested recipe to avoid the crisis imposes: as well as precise strategy elaborated by the ministry for production activities, the coordination of network expansion programmes; the coordination of actions and rules; the opportunity for differentiated deadlines in environment interventions. Also, Machì shows up, in the National electrical system, the handicap of a vectoring fee which conditions negatively the remuneration of the investments for infrastructure improvement and the expansion. November.2001 Enel
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