Italy's installed solar capacity reaches 2.3GW in H1
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Italy's installed solar capacity reaches 2.3GW in H1
According to data from Italia Solare, the Italian Solar Energy Association, the country's new solar installed capacity in the first half of the year was 2.3 GW, and as of the end of March, the cumulative installed photovoltaic capacity amounted to 27.4 GW.
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Italy added about 2.3 GW of new PV system capacity in the first half of 2023, up about 12% from the same period last year. By the end of June 2023, the country's cumulative installed PV capacity stood at about 27.4 GW.
Residential household installed capacity accounted for about 47% of the capacity additions in the first half of the year, while recent growth has been driven by commercial and industrial (C&I) systems and utility-scale solar projects of more than 1 MW in size.
"Compared to the first quarter of this year, grid-connected power from C&I systems and utility-scale solar projects over 1 MW in size increased by 49% and 89%, respectively, in the second quarter of 2023," Italia Solare said.
Grid-connections of power plants of more than 10 MW size, which had been stalled since July 2022, restarted in the second quarter of 2023. In particular, two 10 MW plants in Piedmont and Puglia and a 36 MW plant in Sardinia completed additional grid connections.
Conversely, the residential household sector saw a slight decrease in installed capacity additions from 569 MW in the first quarter of 2023 to 528 MW in the second quarter due to the expiry of the Super Allowance and the discontinuation of generation.
Regions with the highest share of total new installations include Lombardy Region (429 MW), Veneto (353 MW and Emilia-Romagna (235 MW).
Lombardy successfully defended its title with 3.58 GW of cumulative installed capacity, increasing the gap with the Puglia region, which has 3.18 GW of grid-connected PV capacity.In the first quarter of 2023, Lombardy led the way with 429 MW of grid-connected electricity, followed by Veneto and Emilia-Romagna with 353 MW and 235 MW, respectively.
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