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Sergio Matalucci
Sergio Matalucci is a journalist and writer specializing in energy, geopolitics, and international relations. He has worked for Reuters, served as Western Europe correspondent for Natural Gas Europe, and was a senior editor at Ruptly. In addition to his position at pv magazine, he collaborates with several Italian and international publications, including Staffetta Quotidiana and Arte.
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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.
Oct 06, 2025
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.
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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.
Italian lender: Banks will tolerate 10% merchant operation of MACSE-tendered batteries
The opening session of the Italia Solare conference on finance and bankability for solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS) considered how the Mercato a termine degli stoccaggi (MACSE) auction could shape the Italian storage market. Elemens Partner Salvatore Casa predicted auction-set storage payments could be 'very far' below the €32,000 ($38,000)/MWh cap initially suggested.
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Italy’s MACSE Auction: Battery storage price cap boosted to €37,000/MW/year
The €5,000 boost from the Italian energy regulator has come via changes to three key parameters: the investment cost (INV), the rate of return on invested capital, and the operational cost factor (CFO), leading to a higher price cap in the upcoming capacity market auction for energy storage.
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