Insufficient funds for renewable energies

The Berliner Zeitung regrets Italy's return to nuclear power, writing that the nuclear lobby is blocking the development of renewable energies: "The energy companies are afraid of new technologies because from their point of view they have one basic fault: they call their own monopoly into question. Wind and solar energy are produced decentrally for economic reasons - by local or individual operators. The nuclear lobbyists can still argue that nuclear power plants are indispensable to ensure the base load, because wind doesn't blow all the time and the sun only shines during the day. But as soon as the storage problem has been solved wind and sun will be what big industry fears: energy for the man on the street. ... Italy is ill-advised to put the future of its energy policy in the hands of the French nuclear industry. That will cost the country plenty of money it will lack later on - to develop new energies."

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