The newest version of Key Vitality, Italy’s high photo voltaic occasion, exhibits that the nation is as soon as once more poised for progress. It additionally exhibits that incentive schemes can flip agrivoltaics and large-scale storage into market drivers like rooftop and ground-mounted PV.
Italy’s main photo voltaic occasion, Key Vitality, was held within the metropolis of Rimini final week, bringing in additional guests than previously, in response to Italian Exhibition Group (IEG).
“Key Vitality exhibits closed their doorways immediately at Rimini Expo Centre with plus-41% in complete attendance in comparison with 2021 (and plus-15% over the file version of 2019), additionally recording double overseas attendance (from 90 international locations),” the corporate stated, with out offering extra particular figures.
Italian firms and worldwide photo voltaic gamers are exhibiting better confidence within the Italian PV market, which is ready to regain its gigawatt-size market standing, following a number of years of restricted progress.
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“This 12 months, for the primary time, there was a brand new breath of optimism and dynamism,” stated Michelangelo Lafronza, the secretary of ANIE Rinnovabili, the Italian renewable vitality affiliation. “We consider that the scenario we’re experiencing all through Europe has introduced renewables into the limelight. The necessity to cut back vitality prices is mixed with the necessity to shield the surroundings.”
He stated that agrivoltaics have gotten a key market driver within the Italian vitality panorama.
“In line with new knowledge from the Ministry of the Ecological Transition, there are at present 338 agrivoltaic tasks totaling 15 GW which can be at present beneath evaluate to safe an environmental impression evaluation,” he instructed pv journal. “This compares to 140 tasks for ground-mounted installations totaling 5.1 GW.”
Lafronza famous that Italian grid operator Terna and the vitality regulator, Arera, are at present organising a brand new public sale scheme for large-scale storage services.
“Though is it nonetheless unclear if the operators taking part to the auctions may even be remunerated for grid companies or not, the scheme is elevating large expectations within the sector and will set off extra progress,” he stated.
He famous that 38 of the 578 tasks embrace storage capability, for a complete of 1,250 GW.
“A regulatory and regulatory framework is lastly being created through which there’ll really be a number of tens of GWh of storage methods to be constructed,” stated Daniele Rosati, coordinator of the Utility Scale Storage Techniques Group of ANIE Federazione. “This information, along with the presence on the convention of many Italian and overseas sector operators, confirms that Italy is shaping up as one of the essential markets for storage methods worldwide for the subsequent decade:”
Market outlook
The president of Italian affiliation Italia Solare, Paolo Rocco Viscontini, stated Key Vitality faithfully displays the present standing of the Italian market.
“Photo voltaic demand is rising significantly in comparison with earlier years,” he stated. “The primary driver stays the present excessive vitality costs.”
Viscontini stated he expects round 2 GW of recent PV capability this 12 months.
“But when we could have the standard finish of 12 months’s peak, we might also have a number of a whole bunch of extra megawatts,” he stated. “Moreover, from what we heard on the truthful, 2023 may very well be even higher, with greater than 4 GW of newly put in PV capability.”
He stated the principle market drivers would be the industrial and industrial (C&I) phase, which affords a fast and efficient resolution to rising or risky electrical energy costs, and the large-scale phase, which is predicted to see extra progress, regardless of present regulatory boundaries.
In gentle of this progress, IEG has taken the strategic determination to separate the Key Vitality occasion from the broader framework of the Ecomondo circular-economy occasion.
“Key Vitality has matured a lot that it is able to stand by itself two ft,” stated Corrado Arturo Peraboni, CEO of IEG. “After 15 editions operating alongside Ecomondo, the occasion could have its personal area and shall be held in spring with a brand new format that may, in any case, leverage on the prolonged expertise within the sector gained in over a decade of exercise. Our objective is to present the brand new Ok.EY an more and more worldwide scope, reworking it into crucial neighborhood devoted to renewables and vitality transition within the Mediterranean basin space, thus strengthening our management in Europe.”
The subsequent occasion will merely be referred to as “Ok.ey” and shall be held in Rimini in March.
“For the March 2023 version, the exhibition space is predicted to double with a 30% improve within the variety of exhibitor manufacturers current and greater than double the variety of attendees,” the organizer stated, noting that it’s going to additionally embrace a Photo voltaic Exhibition and Convention for the primary time. “The third version of ForumTech, Italia Solare´s coaching and data occasion, may even happen on the similar time.”
