Sun at will, but the most exposed regions do not lead the photovoltaic rankings. I'm the first Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna which together boast about 300 plants serving households and businesses. Sicily, Puglia and Campania are in the standings, but behind Piedmont and Lazio, which also surpass Tuscany and Sardinia. Overall, 986.313 plants of all sizes are installed in Italy, which develop a power of 22,5 Gigawatts. At the end of the year, the power could rise to 23 Gigawatts, intercepting the trend towards the development of renewables necessary for the objectives of the ecological transition and the development of a true circular economy.
The data from the latest report by EnergRed, the energy services company very active for SMEs, is not bad. The company estimates for the end of 2021, 554 new installations. Authorizations permitting, of course. Investments so far have been virtuous in Northern Italy, but state incentives such as the Superbonus 110% have restarted the market everywhere. A subsidized market for renovations that Enea, in turn, keeps under observation.
Rome is the first province with 40.000 plants photovoltaic systems, followed by 9 other provinces in the North including Brescia, Treviso, Padua, Turin, Milan, Bergamo. The regional classification is, however, reversed as regards the installed power. In the lead is Puglia which with fewer plants develops greater green power. On average, Italians use around 450 watts of photovoltaic energy per capita per year. This is also encouraging news on the road to diversifying sources for domestic use. But further development can be ensured by the birth of energy communities that for Moreno Scarchini, CEO of EnegRed are to be encouraged.
The point is: how accelerate investment and social organization for circular economy models? Politics has a duty to resolve the inefficiencies accumulated over years of disorganized legislation upstream. He is trying with the simplification decree bis. We continue to notice slowness in the authorization processes in every part of Italy, said the sole administrator of the GSE Andrea Ripa of Meana last week in a Senate hearing.
"The definition by the Regions and local authorities of the areas suitable for hosting a certain number of renewable energy plants should be a decisive step forward in speeding up the authorization process". Unfortunately, those who want to invest are faced with problems of all kinds, including uncertainty about the allocation of energy capacity for each area. Money? “Incentive mechanisms are the final part of the problem,” added Ripa di Meana. Yet this is what the state is doing in order not to fail the objectives of the coming years.
