Featured in Solar superhero – 06-2012

Market change

Italy: Already at the last Solarexpo in Verona the Italian government managed to shock the country’s PV industry. At that time it announced Conto Energia IV, which provided for substantial cuts in subsidies for solar electricity. Now the government has even topped that and just before Solarexpo 2012 it presented an even more drastic Conto Energia V for discussion.

While sunshine and summer temperatures prevailed at the Solarexpo, which took place for the last time in Verona – which will move to Milan next year – additional hardship was brewing for the solar industry in rainy Rome. There in April the three responsible ministers enacted the basics of the new subsidy legislation Conto Energia …

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