The recent economic history of Calabria is the starting point to build the path to relaunching the South, a path that will use the water, electricity and digital networks. Transits capable of generating value in a great factory of hope capable of keeping cohesion and productivity together. If 2024 marks a point of consolidation for southern utilities, the next decade will measure Calabria’s ability to transform this resilience into elements of industrial policy, building a new development frontier around public services. Today this turf has become a large construction site where work is being done on an industrial and infrastructural transition which, although still unfinished, becomes an obligatory step towards the future.
The over 8 billion in added value generated in 2024 by the Southern utility system (which brings together energy, water, waste and environmental services) represents not only a macroeconomic figure but is the narrative of a return of the public service economy as the productive cornerstone of the South. According to the “Southern Report” by Utilitalia and Svimez, the utilities of the South represent 27.3% of the national added value of the sector, with 112 thousand employees and an average productivity of 75 thousand euros per employee, 17% higher than the Southern industrial average.
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