“As regards solar incentives, we’ll try to reduce them, not as Spain did in a traumatic way, but to do it gradually,” Saglia said.
On the possibility of an annual capacity introduction for the photovoltaic industry incentives, Saglia said: “The government is discussing the issue.”
Saglia said that technical experts were looking at the issue but politicians were less enthusiastic.
“I am personally not that warm to the idea,” Saglia added.
Saglia said Italy that the country will keep the incentive scheme “since it works well along with priority dispatching (for renewable energy) on the network.”
Saglia said that the government has prepared national guidelines with a view to reaching agreement between regions and ministries which he hoped would be approved by the end of this year.
“They provide permitting standards so that companies have a single interlocutor and a single procedure to follow,” Saglia said.
Saglia said “It’s not all good. It has created a kind of oversupply of projects … a kind of trading in authorizations. We’ve got to find a balance between what they do in Puglia and the rest of the country.”
Saglia said that Italy has focused on renewable energy as a short-term way to cut its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports, but revival of nuclear power after a 22-year ban was a long-term solution.
