Italy’s second Fer X solar auction draws bids for 3.16 GW

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Italian energy agency Gestore dei servizi energetici (GSE) has announced that the second solar energy auction under Italy's new incentive scheme for renewable energy, the “transitional” FER X program, has attracted 273 project proposals with a combined capacity of 3.16 GW.

The procurement exercise is expected to allocate a minimum of 200 MW of PV capacity and a maximum of 1.6 GW.

Commercial and industrial PV projects, as well as large-scale PV facilities, can participate in the auction, which is the first one implementing the resilience criteria stipulated by the EU in the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA).

For PV projects exceeding 1 MW in size, the Italian government excluded the use of solar modules, cells, and inverters from China.

The first auction of the transitional FER X program attracted 1,387 project proposals with a combined capacity of 17,537 MW, according to GSE.

In the latest tender under the earlier version of the FER X scheme, which is Italy’s 16th such auction, the GSE awarded 278.5 MW of solar capacity across 53 sites and approved two wind projects totaling 88.4 MW.

 

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