Arzà (Assogasliquidi): “Biomasses are not a green heating solution”

Biomass “was presented as a green solution to the problem of heating. We certainly have the responsibility of having contributed to the emission levels, and we have sometimes used a business and development model that can also be criticized, but the environmental problem is social, not a thought lobby, and addressing the environmental problem in a serious way means studying, improving and solving environmental problems. Italy, unique in Europe, speaks out in favor of woody biomass as a sustainable energy solution. that we never gave up we started studying with universities and research institutes, in collaboration with the Arpa: biomass has a non-negligible negative effect and an impact on air quality that is more worrying than CO2 emissions that allows savings “. Thus Andrea Arzà, president of Assogasliquidi-Federchimica, on the occasion of the public assembly “Scenarios of decarbonization and sustainability: the role of liquefied LPG and LNG”. “When we denounced this fact – continues Arzà – we were alone, even if we had universities and research on our side, but then came a condemnation from the EU Court for emissions and when with the pandemic we had a reduction in private and public traffic of over 80%, the levels of thin poor in the cities and in the Po valley have not decreased, on the contrary. Consistent with the increase in energy consumption in homes, it has even increased “. The Italian LPG and LNG industry is able to guarantee a decarbonization process that is sustainable both from an environmental and socio-economic point of view, but coherent support from national and European politics is needed. This, in summary, is the message that Assogasliquidi-Federchimica, gathered in the assembly, addresses to the country and to the national institutions that represent Italy also at European level. “We appeal to our national and European political representatives to coherently support the growth of LPG and LNG. The signals coming from the European Commission are not positive “, says Andrea Arzà, president of Assogasliquidi-Federchimica.” The updates of the Dafi directive on the construction of infrastructures for alternative fuels and those of the Etd directive on the ‘carbon tax’ – adds Arzà – they could undergo modifications such as not to correctly exploit the benefits deriving from the use of gaseous products. This would be a defeat for our country because it would affect many companies and the approximately 28,000 people who work there “.” If, on the contrary – continues Arzà – our companies could invest with the certainty of not seeing the political strategy change, gas liquefied would accompany the energy transition and the decarbonization process while ensuring the economic and social sustainability of the process. And public and private investments would make it possible to increase bio and renewable production, up to covering the entire demand for gaseous products in the medium-long term. BioGpl and BioGnl are already a reality that does not require any transformation of the vehicles and infrastructure that today use LPG and LNG “.