www.qualenergia.it // june 2014
Photovoltaics has assumed a role, sometimes that is a dominant one in the coverage of daily requirements. Its cost, especially in southern Italy, is competitive with that of fossil fuels. The near future is auto-consumption and accumulation. How can we change the logic of the electricity market? Giuseppe Artizzu’s article published in the latest issue of the magazine QualEnergia. In 2013 photovoltaics covered 7% of Italian electric requirements, a share that has no equal in the world. But due to the seasonal profile and time, this figure is not representative of the actual role that technology has taken. However in winter, there is a tangible impact on the wholesale price of electricity, the weight on the need is still limited, in summer and even more in the late spring technology has transformed the market, arriving to cover in a structural way 15-20% of the working day (significantly more for the holidays).