Gianna Elisa Berlingerio, Director of the Economic Development Department of the Puglia Region; Marco Bernardi, President of Illumia; Fabrizio Iaccarino, Head of Institutional Affairs Italy at Enel; Gaetano Mazzitelli, Chief Commercial & Regulatory Officer di Snam; Carla Napolitano, Head of Innovation within the Strategy, Digital, and Sustainability Department at Terna Group; Mario Antonio Scino, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Environment and Energy Security. Introduction by Giuliano Frosini, Professor at Luiss Guido Carli

The global energy crisis has highlighted the resilience problem of the current energy system to geopolitical shocks. In this context, the role of our country proves potentially decisive, especially from a European perspective, with the current executive’s goal of making Italy the energy hub of the Mediterranean. Moreover, these shocks have occurred within a challenging energy transition process, where the role of gas as a bridge fuel will be necessary, but at the same time, an increase in demand for raw materials necessary to achieve environmental goals is foreseeable. In this sense, only states capable of linking to the new supply chain for the transition will bear lower costs; others, on the contrary, will fall behind and pay much higher prices.