Trevisan who live at the foot of Montello, including Giaveri Nervesa Spresiano and Arcade, have under their feet one of Italy's strategic reserves, to Collalto.
It is not only a cultural field (here, in Collalto, John wrote the House of Etiquette "Over de 'costumes," published in 1558, and the Earl of Collalto was in the same year the subject of poems by Gaspara Print) but is also a field in the literal sense of an Edison storage.
Among the Stogit (ENI), the largest European companies storage, and Edison, Italy is the EU country with the "store" larger than methane.
Warehouses, storage facilities ie: old gas fields which, after being emptied, are re-used as reservoirs hidden and strategic.
After all, the old fields are watertight, have seen that the methane stored for millions of years, and are well infrastructured: when the gas is extracted, there came the pipes to bring natural gas pipelines dress.
Today those same pipes carry the gas underground, when demand is low and when demand for natural gas riestraggono is sky or - as happens these days - when it inflames the "gastritis" between Russia and Ukraine.
The Italian system of storage of methane can count, January 5 at 6 am, on a stock of 6.78 billion cubic meters (since Stogit), representing 80% of what there was in early November when ended up filling the reserve. It's enough to withstand a great international crisis.
On 22 December, when the gas pipeline from Russia to be operating below full capacity, there were still 7.38 billion cubic meters (87.7% of stock compared to November), with a forecast of 31 March with inventory for 2, 4 billion cubic meters (28.6% compared to November last year).
These deposits Invisible Eni and Edison are working on behalf of the market. The gas companies buy natural gas when it costs little (for example, in the summer when demand cools low prices), store it in Italian warehouses, and then ordered Eni to put it back on the market when the pipelines are so full that no sufficient to meet winter demand. The service is paid with the tariffs set by the energy, the most reasonable rates in Europe.
Inventories of natural gas owned by the companies and operators are not all available reserves. An additional fee of methane is reserved for the State, that the reserve "strategic" fixed by law. Finally there is the so-called cushion gas, that is what it takes to create the pressure needed to push out the methane gas-cushion is untouchable, because if it were an object extracted the tank would become useless and wasted.
Gas companies to serve much the stocks: the Edison, the Gaz de France, the Hera, the Northsurn, the Sorgenia, Ital Gas Storage, Gas Plus, the Geo Stock, Enel, Acea, The Blugas have asked to make deposits in the old empty deposits of Bagnolo Mella (Brescia), Cornegliano (Lodi), Cugno Pizzuta The Millstones and Serra (Matera), Poggiofiorito (Chieti), Rivara (Modena), and Romanengo Voltido (Cremona ), St. Benedict and Verdicchio (Ascoli), San Potito (Ravenna), Sinarca (CB).
Italy is more dependent than other methane, which accounts for 38% of energy requirements and has passed the oil between the sources. The reason is simple. The new power plants with very high efficiency and low pollution burning methane. Under the direction of the Ministry of Economic Development Energy, in 2007 (the 2008 data are still being processed), Italy consumed 84.89 billion cubic meters and 34.29 have been burned by power plants (households, commerce and service sectors I have burned 28 billion and 19 billion industry). By comparison, in 2003 the central burned 25.7 billion cubic meters while the families were first item of consumer and commercial applications. (J.G.)