CASE STUDY: ITALIAN INVESTMENT

摘要

Fuelled by generous incentives, growth in the Italian renewable energy industry - especially solar PV - has been astonishing. But as the debt crisis ripples through the economy, will investment trends maintain historical levels while shifting to other renewable energies or flow away from Italy and in to emerging markets? Installed solar PV capacity shot from 3.5 GW in 2010 to 12.8 GW in 2011 as installations roughly doubled to 330,196. By comparison, wind power capacity only increased from 5.8 GW to 6.9 GW and bioenergy from 2.35 GW to 2.83 GW. Most PV capacity increase came from plants ≤ 5 MW as capacity of installations of ＞ 5 MW increased from 354.3 MW to 1.3 GW.