Instruments and lessons learnt from auctions for renewable energy support in Italy.

Italy supports RES except photovoltaics with a fixed feed-in tariff for plants with a capacity below 1 MW and a sliding feed-in premium for plants with a capacity above 1MW. Since 2012, the access to the support is regulated by three distinct mechanisms: Direct access, Registry and Lowest Bid Auctions.

The report contributes to the first and second of three tasks in work package 4 of the AURES project:

T4.1 Providing a characterisation of the different auctions

T4.2 Making an assessment of auctions and case-specific lessons learnt

T4.3 Interpreting and summarise the general lessons learnt and resulting and thereby outline specific recommendations

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