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With resolution no. 952 of 11 June 2021, the Provincial Council approved the Provincial Environmental Energy Plan 2021-2030 (PEAP). The final document, integrated after the public consultation period, traces a trajectory that through 12 transversal strategic lines accompanies Trentino's energy and environmental transition. Following this path, made up of actions affecting all sectors and making us all protagonists, by 2030 we will have reduced climate-altering emissions by 55% compared to 1990, aiming at becoming an energy autonomous province by 2050.
The Provincial Environmental Energy Plan is the provincial planning document for energy-related interventions, provided for by art. 2 of Provincial Law no. 20 of 4 October 2012, and is the result of more than two years of in-depth work by theProvincial Agency for Water Resources and Energy together with a working group in which the University of Trento, the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the Edmund Mach Foundation took part. The plan has an important and strategic role in that it encompasses both the climate change mitigation actions envisaged by Provincial Law 19/2013, which envisaged a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030, and the new limit defined by the latest amendment to the European Climate Law, which raises the target to 55%.
In order to reach this ambitious target, it is not enough to act in just one sector, it is necessary to put in place strategic lines that affect all areas, to reduce consumption, make processes more efficient and maximise the production of renewable energy. This is why, starting from the 2014-2016 energy consumption balance, scenarios were outlined for 2030, taking into account forecasts related to climate change in terms of temperature, precipitation and air quality.
On the one hand, work was done to identify consumption reduction scenarios in the private and public building sector (responsible for 40% of emissions), in the industrial sector, and in sustainable mobility, in order to consume less by making existing assets more efficient and with the transition to new habits. At the same time, ways of implementing renewable energy sources were investigated: the valorisation of woody biomass, biogas production, hydroelectric power production, the emergence of energy communities and the extension of natural gas distribution. Finally, spatial planning actions were outlined to facilitate the implementation of these measures with a long-term planning vision.
This resulted in 12 strategic lines, then declined into 83 priority actions that cut across sectors. It is important to emphasise that only by acting together on all fronts can the planned objectives be achieved.