[Italian Minister of Environment and Energy Security: Italy may give up coal power in 2024] according to Reuters, on the 5th local time, Italian Minister of Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Piceto Frattin said at an event organized by the Italian newspaper Le Repubblica that if natural gas prices remain at current low levels, the country may shut down its coal-fired power stations in 2024. A year ahead of schedule. Italy's environment ministry will unveil the country's latest energy and climate strategy at the end of June, with the goal of increasing renewable energy generation from the current 1/3 to 2/3 by 2030. Whether or not to reintroduce nuclear energy will be decided by the future government, which currently allows only research and testing of this kind of energy. Reported that in the late 1980s, after the Chernobyl accident, Italy gave up the use of nuclear energy through a referendum.