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Michele Governatori

Head of External Relations – Energy

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Michele Governatori is the Head of External Relations – Energy at ECCO.

Michele is an adjunct professor of applied economics, consultant and populariser in the field of energy and environment.

After graduating with honors in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan in 1996, he completed a Master’s degree in Management of the Energy and Environmental Industry at the Scuola Superiore Enrico Mattei.

Michele has since worked with several energy companies as an expert in market design and regulation, while maintaining his work as a researcher and populariser in energy and environment issues. For over a decade, he was the author of Derrick, a blog and radio show for the all-news Radio Radicale, and has continued to contribute to academic and non-academic journals. In 2020, he became an independent consultant and joined the World Wide Carbon Price initiative as Coordinator of the Scientific Committee.

In a previous life, Michele authored short stories and novels, including “Carbon” (Terre di Mezzo, 2012), a novel about a fictional escape from a CO2 sink, designed to mitigate climate change.

Articoli di Michele Governatori

Il settore dell'energia in Italia dopo l'invasione russa in Ucraina

28 September, 2023

The consequences of the Ukraine war and the EU sanctions on the energy sector in Italy

13 February, 2023

Reform of the EU’s electricity market design: ECCO’s response

Pubblicazioni di Michele Governatori

National Energy and Climate Plan: Progress Report

October 2024
As a party to the Paris Agreement and as a member of the European Union, Italy’s national contribution is linked with that of other member states and, together, they are legally obliged to achieve a 55% reduction in net emissions, compared to 1990 levels, by 2030. The National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) provides a national framework for countries to implement their emissions reduction commitments. A Plan that openly falls short of some of the objectives set by the Fit for 55 proposals.

Energy without Russia: Country report Italy

September 2023
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the energy crisis which came in its wake have produced significant impacts on the energy sector in many EU countries, including Italy. This study shows that customers reacted to high gas prices by reducing consumption over and above the European target of 15%, with gas consumption dropping 18.6% from August 2022 to January 2023, in the absence of structural measures.

How much investment is needed for the decarbonisation of the Italian economy?

September 2023
WRITTEN BYMario Noera et al.
A propaedeutic analysis for the revision of the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP). Estimates of the total investment that Italy needs in order to align with the new European Fit-for-55 targets range between an average of EUR 122 and EUR 134 billion per year. The additional investments needed are therefore EUR 30-42 billion per year higher than estimated in the NECP (2019), and 2-3 times higher than the amount allocated in the NRRP for the green transition in the 2021-26 five-year period (an average of EUR 14.4 billion per year).

Policies for a decarbonised Italian electricity system in 2035

June 2023
The project aims to show the production technology, enabling technology and enabling policies required to comply with Italian energy regulations that an essentially decarbonised electricity system in 2035 will need to have in place in 2030 and 2035. The system will be the most economical of all those guaranteeing decarbonisation and security while complying with certain hypotheses.

Capacity Market – Advocacy Kit and Position Paper

May 2021
Una breve introduzione al capacity market italiano e le ragioni per cui, a nostro parere, è incoerente e distorsivo con la transizione. Un kit, organizzato per punti, con le nostre proposte di modifica e i nostri suggerimenti in risposta alla consultazione Terna del maggio 2021.

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