>Italy started to import electricity at a premium, mostly from its French neighbor Of course the French taxpayers now face decades of vast nuclear decommission

>Italy started to import electricity at a premium, mostly from its French neighbor Of course the French taxpayers now face decades of vast nuclear decommissioning costs. Italy doesn't. Rather as a country with lots of sun and many sparsely populated windy areas it can stock up on increasingly cheap renewables aided by possibly dirt cheap future battery prices. So you may be right, but equally maybe history will look quite favorably on Italy's energy choices. We will see.