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Sergio Matalucci
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‘Italy should expect battery and pumped hydro auctions in 2026’
'Curtailment will be a structural element of the operation of our system, period,' said Luca Marchisio, head of system strategy at Terna, during the Italian Renewables Investment Forum 2025. Other industry insiders said Italy is entering a phase in which energy management skills will be increasingly important at company level and planning will be increasingly central at system level.
Jinko: Italy’s MACSE auction reflects bets on supply chain deflation, compressed IRRs
Jinko Power's country manager for Italy has told pv magazine Italia the €12,000 ($14,000) per megawatt-hour, per year to €15,000/MWh/year price for storage set in Italy's Mercato a termine degli stoccaggi (MACSE) auction does not reflect current European project prices. Rather, bidders are betting on continuing price falls, Felice Lucia said.
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Deployment of Italian storage systems with one to 10 MWh of capacity rose sixfold in the second quarter
'The impetus comes from tools such as fast reserve, [the] capacity market and, in the coming months, the new MACSE [mercato a termine degli stoccaggi] mechanism, with which Terna will acquire storage capacity to balance the grid,' said Italian electronics and electrical engineering federation ANIE.
Competition in Italy’s future MACSE auctions could be just as fierce as in the first
Aurora Energy Research's Maddalena Cerreto, tells pv magazine Italia that with permits granted for 40 GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Italy already, competition in the Mercato a termine degli stoccaggi (MACSE) auction program – which aims to secure 50 GWh by 2030 – is likely to be intense.
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