Dear electricity and gas bills, Cgia: “4 million families in difficulty”

Dear electricity and gas bills, in Italy there are 4 million families in difficulty who find themselves in a condition of energy poverty and therefore unable to obtain a minimum basket of energy goods and services: i.e. heating, cooling, lighting , the use of household appliances, and more. This is what the Mestre CGIA estimates by processing the data of the Oipe 2021 Report. Given the scarce economic availability, these nuclei are often forced to choose: either they put together lunch with dinner or they pay the bills. The families most at risk are those with a high number of members, they live in dated houses in a bad state of conservation, the head of the family is young, often destitute and / or immigrant. At the territorial level – the CGIA points out – the most critical situation occurs in the South, where the frequency of energy poverty fluctuates between 24 and 36 percent of families in that area. In Campania, for example, the range goes from at least 519 thousand nuclei in difficulty to almost 779 thousand, in Sicily from just over 481 thousand to 722 thousand and in Calabria from just over 191 thousand up to almost 287 thousand units. “Since last summer, the Draghi government has made almost 20 billion euros available to families and businesses against expensive energy / fuel. A figure that is certainly important, – comments the CGIA – but still insufficient to effectively mitigate the increases that have occurred in these last 9 months “.