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It’s finally starting to happen

Italian storage: Italy met 7.8% of its electricity needs in 2015 with solar, and to date the country has installed a cumulative PV capacity of around 19 GW. Yet, despite this astonishing outcome, the rate of Italys new PV installations has declined dramatically with the majority of solar being added through Italys net metering scheme. Can energy storage and net metering boost the Italian PV market?

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pv magazine

13 Jun 2016

According to the GSE, the state-owned company responsible for the promotion of renewable energy in Italy, the country had installed 18,910 MW of solar PV cumulatively by the end of 2015. This figure is not expected to differ substantially today due to the current anemic growth of the sector. In fact, the number of new …

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