Italy's cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity rose to 33.62 gigawatts by the end of June 2024, according to a report by the Italian photovoltaic association Italia Solare. In the first half of 2024, Italy installed approximately 3.34 gigawatts of new PV capacity, a significant increase from the 2.3 gigawatts installed during the same period in 2023. In 2023, Italy installed a total of 5.23 gigawatts, up from 2.48 gigawatts in 2022 and 0.94 gigawatts in 2021.
Of the new capacity installed in the first half of 2024, 29% (985 megawatts) came from residential systems under 20 kilowatts, 35% (1,155 megawatts) from commercial and industrial systems between 20 and 200 kilowatts, and 36% (1,201 megawatts) from systems over 1 megawatt. The growth in large-scale systems was driven by the connection of 17 plants with capacities exceeding 10 megawatts, totaling 540 megawatts.
Paolo Rocco Viscontini, president of Italia Solare, noted the progress in the power plant sector, with permits gradually leading to completed and grid-connected plants, though the process remains lengthy.
There was a notable 122% increase in connections of plants between one and ten megawatts, from 297 megawatts in the first half of 2023 to 661 megawatts in the first half of 2024. Six regions accounted for 63% of the new capacity installed this year: Lombardy (554 megawatts), Lazio (426 megawatts), Veneto (329 megawatts), Emilia-Romagna (304 megawatts), Piedmont (257 megawatts), and Sardinia (242 megawatts).
In these regions, a total of 2.11 gigawatts were connected to the grid in the first half of 2024, distributed as follows: 24% (515 megawatts) in the private sector, 34% (717 megawatts) in the commercial and industrial sector, and 42% (880 megawatts) in the utility-scale sector.
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