Incentives for solar panels

Country / jurisdiction: Italy · Year: 2016 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

The Ministerial Decree of 23 June 2016 updated the mechanisms of the Ministerial Decree of 6 July 2012 for incentivizing the production of electricity from plants powered by renewable sources, other than photovoltaic. The Decree included thermodynamic solar plants among the plants eligible for the mechanisms, repealing the Ministerial Decree of 11 April 2008.

The plants are incentivized on the basis of the energy fed into the grid: those up to 500 kW with all-inclusive tariffs; those above this threshold with an incentive equal to the difference between a reference tariff and the hourly zonal price of energy. Depending on the power of the plants, access to the incentives is subject to registration in registers or participation in auctions, while in the case of smaller plants access is direct. The competitive procedures (auctions, registers) have made available a total of approximately 1.4 GW of power, of which approximately 1 GW per auction. Law no. 145 of 30 December 2018 allowed access to the incentives of the Ministerial Decree of 23 June 2016 to biogas plants up to 300 kW built by agricultural entrepreneurs with specific requirements in terms of biomass used and self-consumption of the thermal energy produced, providing for a register, for the year 2019, within the limit of the indicative annual cost of €25 million or, alternatively, direct access for plants up to 100 kW. Law no. 21 of 26 February 2021 introduced a third register, for the year 2021, within the limit of the indicative annual cost of an additional €25 million.

Official source: https://www.gse.it/documenti_site/Documenti%20GSE/Rapporti%20delle%20attivit%C3%A0/GSE_Rapporto_Attivit%C3%A0_2021.pdf