Families will be able to invest in solar panels, geothermal systems, home storage batteries, and heat pumps to replace fossil fuel boilers, as well as in medium or deep home renovations. For businesses, instead, in industrial decarbonization technologies and building efficiency improvements. And also: for public administrations in on-site production and storage of renewable energy and in renovations of public buildings. For all three cases, subsidies will be provided for electric cars. Not the vehicles themselves, but the charging stations.
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This is what the communication from the European Commission just published in the Official Journal of the EU provides, explaining the criteria for activating the national safeguard clause extended to energy security measures, derogating from the Stability Pact constraints.
Flexibility, as reiterated in the document, covers only measures decided after February 28, 2026, to prevent States from using it to cover budget choices already made previously.
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No subsidies for excise cuts
A document that clarifies, but it was already known, that flexibility will not be provided to subsidize the purchase of fossil fuels. A topic that will become central in Italy starting next week, when the Government will have to understand how to continue the fight against high fuel prices (today there is an active -17 cents per liter on diesel), with prices today approaching 2.1 euros per liter for diesel and 2 euros for gasoline. Therefore, for the excise cut, the deviation will not be granted.
Nuclear power plants also included
It will be possible, instead, for public transport infrastructures, to invest in trams, subways, and railway rolling stock. For the energy sector in the strict sense, which represents a separate item in the table, investments include renewables, battery and storage technologies, electric grids, hydrogen production from electrolysis, system energy efficiency, sustainable renewable fuels, and – among the less obvious items – also nuclear power plants.
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