Italy's new policy proposals for solar field 'a waste of money', trade body says

• New measures from Italy's federal government to accelerate and also streamline renewables implementation have actually been greatly criticised by the country's solar market.

A draft decree from the federal government unveiled on Friday consists of new regulations for the development of solar PV in agricultural locations as well as a fund to help little and medium-sized firms to install renewables.

Under the proposals, gives completing EUR267 million (US$ 303 million) would be provided to sustain companies that include self-consumption PV plants with a capacity of up to 200kW.

Italia Solare has flagged problems about the bureaucracy of implementing the plan. "It would certainly have been better to give a tax obligation credit score as we have actually been requesting a very long time," the trade body said.

While Italia Solare welcomed a policy to streamline the authorisation process for overseas renewables plants, the organization said the proposals in its entirety are "a waste of public money" as well as contain "no useful measures to seriously increase photovoltaic or pv setups in Italy".

The solar policies were announced as the government approved steps worth around EUR6 billion to fight high energy costs, which follows EUR1.7 billion energy plan revealed last month.

That bundle is partly funded by an action that claws back the profits of some operational solar plants that recieve feed-in tariffs under Italy's Conto Energia scheme that have additionally been able to gain from rising electrical energy costs.

Relevant to PV projects with a capacity of more than 20kW, the policy is impacting as high as 13GW of solar assets in Italy, according to one quote, and is readied to remain in position till the end of the year.

A joint statement released previously this month by a group of trade associations, consisting of SolarPower Europe, advised that the "complex and discriminatory actions" will certainly jeopardise Europe's clean power transition and have "massive impacts" on renewables financial investments.