{"id":306073,"date":"2026-02-19T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:07:09","slug":"italys-plan-to-strip-carbon-costs-from-electricity-bills-roils-energy-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306073\/","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":306074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[125923,144141,246,144142,1813,31537,1523,61,60,102,123,18602,3400,82,18603],"class_list":{"0":"post-306073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-emissions-trading","9":"tag-enel-spa","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-erg-spa","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-gas-prices","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-italy","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-power-plants","20":"tag-renewable-energy","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-utilities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}