Italy adds 5.23GW of solar capacity in 2023, pushes total installed capacity above 30GW

Rome: Italy added 5.23GW of new solar PV capacity in 2023, according to trade association Italia Solare, significantly higher than the 4GW of new capacity installs forecast by the trade body, and the highest annual total since 2011.

The news is very encouraging for the Italian solar sector, which reported an increase in new power plants connected of 85% over the previous year, and an increase in new power capacity connection of 111% over 2022.

The sector has also come to rely increasingly on large-scale projects, with Italia Solare noting that, in the third quarter of 2023, Italy added 341MW of capacity at what it calls “large plants”, those with a generation capacity of over 10MW.

This compares to 420MW of capacity connected through large plants between January 2020 and September 2023.