According to PeakOil -> Planetark :
MILAN – The installed capacity of photovoltaic systems that turn sunlight into power will rise 50 percent to some 60 megawatts in Italy in 2006 and will grow fast due to new incentives, an energy analyst said on Thursday.
“This year the new capacity will be 20 MW. It’s a four-fold increase from last year’s (new capacity of) 5 MW,” Gianni Silvestrini, energy adviser to Italy’s Economic Development Minister Pierluigi Bersani, told a photovoltaic conference. “There is room for four or five-fold increases in the next few years,” Silvestrini said.
Sun-washed Italy, which lags behind Europe’s solar energy leader Germany, installed only 5 MW of photovoltaic power generation last year, raising the total capacity to some 40 MW, while Germany built 603 MW of new capacity.
Italy would install 80-100 MW of photovoltaic systems in 2007 and 100-120 MW in 2008 as new tariff subsidies, aimed at boosting this segment of renewable energy, and new energy-savings rules for buildings were due to kick in next year, Silvestrini told Reuters on the conference margins.
- Ok, Italy had join the SOLAR Family… Where are ours?? I want SOLAR Power Plant in our offshore island! Anyone please slap those oil companies a few tight ones to wake them up….
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