{"id":345284,"date":"2026-02-19T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/345284\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:08:10","slug":"italys-plan-to-strip-carbon-costs-from-electricity-bills-roils-energy-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/345284\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Plan to Strip Carbon Costs From Electricity Bills Roils Energy Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Italy is preparing a sweeping overhaul of its electricity market that would strip carbon costs from power bills, a move that has sent shock waves through energy markets and driven a sharp selloff in forward prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Italy\u2019s cabinet approved the so-called Energy Decree worth more than \u20ac3 billion ($3.5 billion) on Wednesday evening, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said in a statement. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the measures \u201cvery significant\u201d and said they kept a promise made to voters when her government took power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy is preparing a sweeping overhaul of its electricity market that would strip carbon costs from power bills,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,145314,162980,440,162981,1015,122264,3428,19,17,371,188,10947,961,133,23927],"class_list":["post-345284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-eire","tag-emissions-trading","tag-enel-spa","tag-environment","tag-erg-spa","tag-europe","tag-gas-prices","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-markets","tag-power-plants","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-utilities"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116097221964883302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}