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Italy preps energy storage auctions

The appropriate minister has signed into law a decree which will allow electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Terna to stage procurement exercises, possibly as early as the first half of 2025.

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Sergio Matalucci, Massimiliano Tripodo

Oct 15, 2024

Italian minister of the environment and energy security, Gilberto Pichetto, has signed a decree approving the establishment of a centralized electricity storage system.

With the European Commission having approved plans submitted by Italy in December 2023, Pichetto’s signature enables electricity TSO Terna to organize tenders to procure energy storage capacity.

The ministry wrote, “The measure that will allow Terna to start the procurement procedures enters the operational phase, with a first auction aimed at electrochemical storage systems to be held as early as the first half of 2025.”

Terna has until March 31, 2025, to submit a proposal to the ministry to amend energy market regulations to enable hydroelectric energy storage to be part of the procurement program.

From pv magazine Italia articles about the decree and its detail.

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