Italy put in 1.72 GW of latest photo voltaic capability within the first quarter, bringing cumulative put in PV capability to 32.0 GW on the finish of March, in response to Italia Solare, the photo voltaic power affiliation of nation.
From pv journal Italy
Italy reached 32 GW of cumulative put in PV capability on the finish of March, unfold over 1.7 million installations, in response to new statistics from Italia Solare.
In the primary quarter of this 12 months, the nation deployed 1.72 GW of latest PV capability, in comparison with 1.05 GW in the identical interval in 2023.
The third largest a part of this capability is represented by PV methods of lower than 20 kW in dimension, amounting to 547 MW in whole. The largest share is installations with outputs from 20 kW to 200 kW, with a share of 595 MW, adopted by photo voltaic vegetation above 1 MW, which accounted for 579 MW in whole.
The areas with the biggest share of whole new capability additions are Lombardia with 304 MW, Lazio with 229 MW, Veneto with 188 MW, Emilia Romagna with 150 MW, and Piedmont with 131 MW.
“Compared to Q1 2023, final quarter the related energy supplied to the residential sector decreased by 15%, associated to C&I elevated by 106% and the ability supplied to the utility-scale sector elevated by 373% ,” mentioned Italia Solare. . “This sturdy development is pushed by the connections of eight vegetation with an influence of greater than 10 MW, for a complete of 281 MW, put in in Lombardy (20 MW), Lazio (137 MW) , Friuli-Venezia Giulia (24 MW), Sicily (40 MW), Sardinia (50 MW) and Puglia (10 MW).
The C&I sector additionally confirmed sturdy development within the first quarter with 595 MW, up 106% from the identical interval final 12 months.
“The predominant driver of development in C&I connections is the rise in power costs in 2022, which returns to a mean month-to-month worth under €100 ($108.74)/MWh solely in the beginning of 2024,” the commerce group mentioned. “The impression of excessive power costs, interprets into sturdy development in C&I connections till mid-2023.”
The Italian authorities at present helps large-scale photo voltaic by way of an public sale system and rooftop photo voltaic by way of a net-metering program and different monetary incentives.
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