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Siemens Smart Infrastructure is deepening its partnership with Italian DSO AcegasApsAmga to help decarbonise Trieste, with a key focus on electrifying the city’s busy port.
Agri-PV in Italy is moving beyond its niche status, emerging as a promising, standalone industry with distinct needs and growing relevance for both agriculture and energy. Sandro Esposito, managing director of CCE Italia, sees major opportunities.
The potential of combining solar, wind and storage at one site is clear. Regulation remains the main barrier, but some European countries are now showing how it’s done.
The five-plant upgrade boosts system performance and reliability, with Fimer inverters replacing outdated equipment across the 24 MW portfolio in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
The Italian manufacturer is driving its relaunch through product investments, new certifications, improved after-sales service and partner-focused events.
2024 saw considerable growth phases as well as uncertainties around legislation and infrastructure readiness in several European markets. Wolf Dietrich, Senior Director Development, UK & Europe of Econergy, summarises the key challenges and provides an outlook on growth trends and success factors for 2025.
Agrivoltaics combines solar power and agriculture, offering genuinely niche opportunities. Nevertheless, it won't replace traditional solar parks, says Carsten Bovenschen, CEO of Juwi.
The energy provider secured contracts as part of the latest Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan auction. Both agri-PV projects in the Naples region are being developed as tracker systems.
The EU wants to promote energy communities. A number of countries are further along than Germany in implementing corresponding targets. In the EU project FEDECOM, energy communities are now to be more closely integrated into sector coupling.
Italy is blessed as a Southern European country with many hours of sunshine and is now consistently using this advantage for the generation of solar energy: Thus, 2024 was a successful year for renewable energies in general in Italy, especially for photovoltaics.
Fimer, recently acquired by MA Solar Italy, affiliated of the McLaren Applied group, confirms participation in the 2025 edition of KEY - The Energy Transition Expo in Rimini, 5-7 March 2025. Various new products will be presented.
RWE has been active in the wind power sector in Italy for quite some time, and the group is now also strengthening its commitment in the Italian photovoltaic market. Its first solar park in Sicily has been put into operation.
KEY in Rimini/Italy opens its doors from March 5 to 7, 2025. The tradefair is not only larger and covers a broader range of topics around energy transition than before, but is also more international.
MET Energia Italia has launched the first Renewable Energy Community in Lombardy. The community is open to all citizens, companies and local authorities in the area, and uses renewable energy to generate energy savings.
Telecommunications company TIM Group, in collaboration with Axpo Italia, launched TIM Energia, a new venture offering green electricity to meet the energy needs of Italy’s small and medium sized businesses.
According to the project developer Futura Group, the project in Sardinia is the largest solar plant combining agriculture and photovoltaics to date. Aiko has been chosen to supply the modules.
Kostal and EPC have built a solar system with an output of 1 MW on the roof of an old tobacco processing plant. The bifacial modules ensure a high yield, which the inverters can convert.
Alessandra Astolfi, Exhibition Director of renewable tradefair KEY 2025 in Rimini/Italy, on its importance at a time just before the relaunch of renewable energy tenders in the country.
Rome is supporting the construction of more than 1.5 gigawatts of agri-PV capacity with market premiums and investment subsidies. The prerequisite is that agricultural production is still possible.
Large battery storage systems are becoming more and more popular in Europe. Important reasons for this are the increasing demand for grid stabilization services and the shifting of peak loads. Italy and Great Britain are ahead of the game.
Following the assignment, in late November 2024, of inverter manufacturer Fimers business complex to MA Solar Italy Limited affiliated to the McLaren Applied Group, the acquisition procedure has been formally completed as planned. Fimer has been officially integrated into the Greybull Capital and McLaren Applied family.
What are the opportunities and challenges for business cases for stand-alone battery energy storage systems (BESS) in European markets like Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Romania and Austria? Expert Philipp Kraemer of CCE shares his analysis.
CCE Holding finalized a EUR 24 million project financing with Commerzbank AG. The loan amount will be used for the construction of a 42.08 MW photovoltaic plant in the municipality of Montalto di Castro in the Italian region of Lazio near Rome.
Swiss based energy company BKW concludes a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with the German-Austrian solar developer CCE Holding for a 42-Megawatt solar plant in Lazio/Italy.
The Extraordinary Commissioners of Italian inverter manufacturer Fimer in Extraordinary Administration have announced that the Company’s business complex has been assigned to MA Solar Italy Limited, part of the McLaren Applied Group, with the support of Greybull Capital. The takeover price was not disclosed.
