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Agrivoltaics have been all the fad this yr, and maybe they’re raging nowhere greater than in Italy. Italy only in the near past held its first ever tender for agrivoltaics, and it was a giant one!
Bel Paese awarded contracts for 1.5 gigawatts of agrivoltaics photo voltaic initiatives inside its borders. That’s unfold throughout 540 completely different initiatives.
And the tender was oversubscribed. There have been 643 bids totaling 1.7 gigawatts (GW) of energy capability. Giant initiatives awarded contracts embrace “270 MW for European Vitality, a 62 MW Repower array in Sicily, and a 73 MW Subsequent Vitality Capital set up in Campania.” There’s additionally “Solarig with 122 MW and Photosol with 55 MW. DCH Di Carlo Holding secured greater than 140 MW, rating simply behind European Vitality.”
Naturally, it’s Italy’s power company, Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE), that has overseen the tenders and is answerable for this program. A lot of the successful initiatives are to be positioned in southern Italy, or the underside of the Italian boot.
“A lot of the initiatives got here from agricultural firms,” pv journal writes. “All eligible initiatives acquired incentives, because the tender’s most quota was not met. Reductions on ceiling costs ranged from 9.18% to 53%, with bigger initiatives benefiting from economies of scale.” Probably the most that shall be paid to initiatives 300 kW or smaller is €0.093 ($0.097)/kWh, whereas essentially the most for initiatives over 300 kW is €0.085 ($0.089)/kWh.
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