italy solar power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:21:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Enel Green Power Opens Two New Solar Power Plants in Italy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/enel-italy-solar-power-plants-20110905/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/enel-italy-solar-power-plants-20110905/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:21:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20351 Last week, Enel Green Power (EGP) has inaugurated two photovoltaic plants in Italy with a total installed capacity of 12.6 MW. The new photovoltaic plant in Canaro, in the province of Rovigo, having a capacity of 6 MW, will be able to generate over 7 million kWh of electricity per year. The solar power plant […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/enel-italy-solar-power-plants-20110905/feed/ 1 20351 Italian Solar Power Capacity Expected To Reach 30 GW By 2020 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/italy-solar-capacity-2020-20110712/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/italy-solar-capacity-2020-20110712/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:33:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19454 Italy's solar market is expected to see an unprecedented boom. According to Fulvio Conti, CEO of Enel, the country will generate 30GW of solar power by 2020, in an attempt to reach its goal of fighting against climate change.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/italy-solar-capacity-2020-20110712/feed/ 0 19454 Italy Adds 7 GW of Solar Power To The Grid, Incentives Helping https://www.greenoptimistic.com/italy-solar-power-incentives-20110506/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/italy-solar-power-incentives-20110506/#respond Fri, 06 May 2011 18:34:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18470 2010 saw the surge of Italy's interest for investing in the solar market, so much so that it drove the country to rank second on the new installations scale. Worries that government incentives were about to stop this year led consumers into frenzy. A prolongation of the program until June 2011 will make Italy own an impressive 7 GW of solar power attached to the grid.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/italy-solar-power-incentives-20110506/feed/ 0 18470 World's First Fully Solar Powered Motorway To Be Open In Italy, Between Catania and Siracusa https://www.greenoptimistic.com/catania-siracusa-motorway-solar-power-20101116/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/catania-siracusa-motorway-solar-power-20101116/#respond Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11819 Italy, the country with the world's first highway ever built (in 1926), is now preparing the addition of another motorway segment between Catania and Siracusa (the A18). But this is not just another motorway: it is the first fully solar-powered in the world, with 20 hectares-worth of solar panels.

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