Considering the data presented previously and in literature,
the investments in WTE facilities will directly
affect the energy imports in both electricity and fuels [3-5,
11, 15, 19]. But this reduction in imports of energy products
will directly affect the trade balance by reducing the
domestic expenditures. In particular, the produced RDF/
SRF could be easily substitute 128 Kt of the imported hard
coal, as it is experimentally proven that it can replace a
part of the lignite used in existing power stations [15-18],
corresponding to a reduction of 12.16 M€ annually [11, 26,
27].