Photovoltaic energy promotion in Europe: Italy and Spain, two visions, one aim

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to compare the legislation about photovoltaic energy in two European countries, Italy and Spain. Both incentive policies have been studied and compared. The Italian policies incentivize the energy production, while Spanish policy gives an incentive to the energy sale. Both kind of policies are studied and compared taking into account the consequences which can be seen in the energy production market. From the analysis we can conclude that the little photovoltaic plants (up to 5 kW) are more profitable in Italy, while in Spain, the great farms win in profitability. As a result of that, the accumulated photovoltaic power in Spain in the last two years shows an increase of the 363% in front of the 46.6% for the same item in Italy. ©2008 IEEE.