Photovoltaic powered distributed generation development in the italian context

Abstract

At present a large number of renewable energy generation plants is starting to be connected all around the world and, in particular, Italy is experiencing one of the fastest large-scale diffusion of distributed energy resources (DERs) and this could has a considerable impact on electricity infrastructure functioning by bringing some changes to the traditional model of generation and supply as well as to the business model of the energy industry. The present analysis has been carried out in different steps considering all the issues related to the actual PV growth rate in Italian market, under technical, economical and environmental points of views.