An effective and sustainable
transition to renewable sources of energy needs to be carried
out with adequate infrastructures and interconnection is the key
to a new diplomacy aimed at boosting opportunities of
cooperation, Premier Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday,
addressing the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week summit.
"If we want to enact a concrete and sustainable energy
transition, we must ensure that it is carried out with adequate
infrastructures.
"I am sure that developing interconnections can be the key to a
new energy diplomacy to multiply opportunities of cooperation
amongst us, generating benefits shared by all.
"With this approach, Italy wants to become a strategic hub for
energy flows between Europe and Italy", said the premier.
Meloni said she was proud of a deal with Albania and the United
Arab Emirates for the production and transportation of renewable
energy from Albania to Italy.
"I am personally proud of this initiative, which tangibly shows
how new forms of cooperation can also be built between partners
who can appear distant, at least geographically", noted Meloni,
speaking about the deal between Italy, Albania and the UAE,
signed by Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed and Albanian
Premier Edi Rama, for the production of green energy in Albania
and its transportation to Italy.
Meloni called the deal an "ambitious project between the
Adriatic's two coasts", a "new energy interconnection to produce
green energy in Albania and export part of it to Italy, thanks
to a subsea cable in the Adriatic - a project that involves our
three governments, as well as our private sectors and our
network operators".
And Rama on Wednesday also spoke about the creation of the
infrastructure for the production and transport of renewable
energy from Albania to Italy on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi
Sustainability Week summit.
"The infrastructure is worth around one billion euros and it
will be operational in three years at the most", explained Rama,
addressing Italian reporters at the summit.
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