Enel’s floating PV test facility in Catania, Italy
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The Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (MASE) plans to allocate a quota of 30 MW for floating photovoltaic systems on inland waterways in the latest round of the FER2 renewable energy tender mechanism.
The auction round will take place on June 8.
Under this auction regime, incentives are given to innovative renewable energy systems or systems with high generation costs that demonstrate innovation and have a reduced environmental and territorial impact.
The tender is the second of its kind and also includes the award of biogas and biomass projects. In the first round, which concluded in July, MASE planned to allocate around 50 MW of floating PV, but only a 900 kW project proposed by Società agricola Busetto Srl in Padua was selected.
Two projects submitted by Sonnedix in Montanaso Lombardo, in the northern province of Lodi, each with a capacity of 3.9 MW, were rejected. In this round, the ceiling rate for floating PV is €0.090 ($0.10)/kWh for installations between 1 kW and 300 kW, and €0.0728/kWh for systems above 1 MW.
Given the low level of participation, the ministry appears to have reduced the capacity allocated to floating PV.
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