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Renato Mazzoncini

Chief Executive Officer, A2A

Search every verified Renato Mazzoncini interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Renato Mazzoncini, CEO of A2A, has recently presented the company's territorial sustainability reports for 2025, highlighting investments and economic value distributed across regions such as Calabria and Milan. In Calabria, he stated that A2A distributed 45 million euros and invested 20 million euros, and he expressed expectations that the group's investments in the region would grow, citing the company's entry into water management as a key development. He described water distribution as a significant challenge in Calabria, noting the resource's availability and the need for proper management for population, hydroelectric, and agricultural uses. In Milan, he reported over 600 million euros in investments for 2025, an increase of 24% year-on-year, and 1.3 billion euros distributed locally, including 900 permanent hires. He also discussed the potential of data centers to support digitalization while emphasizing the importance of recovering waste heat for district heating. Mazzoncini has also commented on broader energy and economic issues. At the Italian Energy Summit, he characterized current data center project requests in Italy, totaling around 90 GW, as a "mega bubble" given the country's peak demand of about 55 GW, and he argued that serious, sustainable projects will proceed. He stated that A2A offers fixed-price electricity contracts with discounts up to 50% below wholesale prices, and he suggested that citizens can save by adopting more efficient electric technologies such as heat pumps and electric cars. Speaking on nuclear power, he said that no one expects it to be available within ten years and advocated for advancing renewable energy plans in the interim, while supporting Italy's new regulatory framework for nuclear development. He has linked the end of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) to a risk of recession, and he presented an A2A study proposing that utility investments of 33 billion euros annually could help sustain the economy. He also identified grid renewal and accelerated permitting for renewable projects as key bottlenecks, stating that solar fields take about five years and wind farms seven years to complete in Italy.

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“The problem, Matteo, is that for us industrialists this is not problem number one. Problem number one because I have no concern about having a nuclear power plant in my garden. I have no technical concerns. The problem is that our French friends who are relaunching their nuclear program have sent home three CEOs; they changed three CEOs in 4 years because after Macron asked them to do a nuclear program of 78 billion ”

“The first measure would be to make people a bit more aware. What happened in 2022? You see it in this chart. Before the war, the price of energy, which was typically stable, goes crazy. It goes crazy for geopolitical reasons, as Matteo anticipated earlier. We were calm for a couple of years, so to speak, but with prices much higher than we had before, and then the second crisis, Ormut, now we say after two crises in ”

“The data center consumes a lot of energy, and part of this energy is used for the server room, for the CPUs and GPUs that do the processing, but an important part is used to cool them. If you keep a laptop on your knees, after a while you have to move it because it heats up, and imagine that. And so a company like ours can contribute in an important way to building what is called the shell, that is, the home of the d”

“The demand for data centers at the moment is undoubtedly a mega bubble, because we're talking about requests for 90 gigawatts of power. Consider that all of Italy together runs on about 55, so you understand that obviously it makes no sense. It's a bit like what happened with renewables, where anyone who had a project, even a super preliminary one, put it on the table. There's a complication that I hope can be resolv”

“Adesso noi il gas, anche noi a 2A, lo compriamo negli Stati Uniti perché è il mercato comunque dove costa meno ed è più stabile, diciamo. L'alternativa sarebbe il Qatar per capire e lo paghiamo 11, solo che purtroppo tutti voi lo volete usare qui, non negli Stati Uniti. E quindi tocca liquefarlo e costa tantissimo energeticamente liqulo. Costa €13 al MWh, cioè 11 lo compro. 13 l'olique falco, poi lo devo trasportare ”

“Ma allora, questo parte abbastanza lontano da una considerazione che abbiamo fatto ormai 3-4 anni fa sulla, diciamo, progressiva inutilità delle classiche colonnine che hanno popolato l'intero paese, cioè quelle cosiddette quick a 22 kW in corrente alternata che pochissime auto ormai sono in grado di sfruttare appieno perché, come chiunque guidi un'auto elettrica sa, le automobili elettriche oggi si ricaricano in cor”

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