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Agrivoltaics have been all the rage this year, and perhaps they’re raging nowhere more than in Italy. Italy just recently held its first ever tender for agrivoltaics, and it was a big one!
Bel Paese awarded contracts for 1.5 gigawatts of agrivoltaics solar projects within its borders. That’s spread across 540 different projects.
And the tender was oversubscribed. There were 643 bids totaling 1.7 gigawatts (GW) of power capacity. Large projects awarded contracts include “270 MW for European Energy, a 62 MW Repower array in Sicily, and a 73 MW Next Energy Capital installation in Campania.” There’s also “Solarig with 122 MW and Photosol with 55 MW. DCH Di Carlo Holding secured more than 140 MW, ranking just behind European Energy.”
Naturally, it’s Italy’s energy agency,
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.