Renewable companies on a war footing again. “It was expected by October 1, 2014 – attacks a press release released a little while ago by assoRenewables – but to date there is still no news of the implementing decree which should have regulated the percentages of remodulation of the incentive, envisaged by "option b", one of the three contained in the disputed provision "Spread Incentives”".
For companies in the sector, which have to make important decisions in the light of the Competitiveness law, intervened to reduce state incentives in particular on photovoltaics, it is a further inconvenience to face. “In addition to the damage, the insult: today whoever has a photovoltaic system of power exceeding 200 kW in Italy – he explains Agostino Re Rebaudengo, president of assoRinnovabili – not only has the incentive been reduced retroactively, but he is also in the position of not being able to choose the way in which the tariff will be reduced, because the implementing regulations for one of the three options do not yet exist. All less than 50 days from the deadline, peremptorily set by the Legislator at 30th November, to communicate to the GSE the reduction option among those envisaged by the law. The operator thus finds himself, in fact, bound by the deadline, but in the real impossibility of making an informed choice, until the Ministry adopts the decree”.
An "unsustainable and unacceptable" situation so much so that assoRinnovabili wrote to the Ministry of Economic Development to request the release of the decree, demanding a extension of the November 30 deadline of at least as many days as the delay accumulated from the non-adoption of the provision, guaranteeing sufficient time to evaluate which option is the most suitable (or rather the least prejudicial) for each plant.
"By reducing the times - protest the operators - the Ministry does not seem to want to take into account the complexity of the choice: in addition to evaluating the economic and financial impact of the individual options, in fact, the final choice of the producer will then have to be shared and approved by the decision-making bodies of major banking institutions.
Silence also on the side of the Mef (Ministry of Economy and Finance) on the decree that should regulate access to bank loans guaranteed by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, which would allow operators to mitigate the effects of the cut. For these reasons, “assoRinnovabili therefore confirms its willingness to undertake lawsuits against the rule "Spalma incentives".
