New Rules on Authorization Procedures for Renewable Energy Plants

The following article explains the introduction of new frameworks in regard to renewable energy installations in Italy according to the official decree. On July 14, the Senate renewed its confidence in the Government by definitively approving, in the text dismissed by the Chamber, the bill for the conversion, with modifications, of the Decree-Law no. 50 of
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The Ultimate Guide on Agrivoltaics in Italy

The Italian authority has published the formal general guidelines regarding agrivoltaics. This document was developed and published within a working group coordinated by the ministry of ecological transition – the department for energy and provides precise definitions of agrivoltaic systems, separating agrivoltaics from advanced agrivoltaics. Agrivoltaic plant is the one which: i) adopts innovative integrative
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Italian solar sector defines standards for agrivoltaics

Italian renewable energy associations ANIE Rinnovabili, Italia Solare, and Elettricità Futura have released a joint position paper defining a series of standards for agrivoltaics projects. A document compiled by three Italian renewables associations identifies with extreme precision the area that is allowed to be used for power generation in the two most common agrivoltaics configurations — solar arrays with elevated
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Italian Fer Observatory On Renewables 2021

Renewables on the rise: + 70% compared to 2020 with 1,397 MW. It is essential to accelerate to reach the 2030 goals.  According to the RES Observatory created by ANIE Rinnovabili, an association of ANIE Federation, based on the data from Terna of 2021 there is a cumulative total of 1,376 MW of renewables divided
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The Italian Energy Prices Have Never Been Higher

The cost of electricity in Italy has never been higher. This is what emerges from the data published by Arera, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks, and the Environment. In the first weeks of 2022, the Italian energy prices per MWh had an average of 216,35 €.   According to the same authority, the price is composed of 80.8% of energy, 8.4% of transportation and meter, and 10,8% taxes, while the system fees have been deducted from the government for the last quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022.    The main driver of such a huge increase is found in the cost of energy: in the last period, from the third to the fourth quarter of 2021, the price went from
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Agro-voltaic plants in Italy: news about the incentive tariffs

The agro-voltaic sector is characterized by a hybrid use of agricultural lands, which are exploited both for agricultural production and for the production of electricity from renewable sources (particularly, photovoltaic sources). Following the goals set out by the National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate (“PNIEC”), the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (“PNRR”) has expressly included the
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The grid connection potential between Italy and Tunisia

On 27 July, the Italian TSO Terna presented to the citizens of Castelvetrano, Campobello di Mazara and Partanna (Sicily) the results of public consultation on the planned strategic electric connection between Italy and Tunisia, an underground cable connecting the European and African electricity systems. The cable will be underground and undersea between Italy and Tunisia
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Agrovoltaico®, The new no-limit photovoltaics

Giancarlo Ghidesi, COO REM Tec The new Agrovoltaico® technology has the potential to unleash a chain of double value, for agriculture and fertile land but also for solar energy production: the interaction between the two is fundamental to help not only the energy transition, but also to avoid fertile land to be expropriated for one
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Solar Capacity in Italy to triplicate by 2030

The COVID-19 crisis did not stop the solar wave that was unleashing in Italy and Gianni Silvestrini,  Renewable energy expert  and Scientific Director of the Kyoto Club, provides us with insightful information on the green wave upon which Italy is increasing the solar capacity by 2030.  According to the “Renewables 2020” IEA report, in the first half of this year, the new
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The first floating offshore wind farm in Sicily

The first offshore wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea could soon be ready in the Sicilian channel, far out from the town of Marsala. The structure, 7seas med, will include 25 floating 10MW turbines. It will not be visible from the coast, as it is more than 35 km far from Marsala, Egadi Islands and Tunisia.
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