Engie has inaugurated a 66MWp solar farm in Sicily, which will provide electricity to power online retailer Amazon’s Italian operations.
The park combines renewable energy production with agricultural farming and is among the biggest agrovoltaic park built in Italy. It is the first agrovoltaic project in Italy conceived on the basis of a corporate Power Purchase Agreement contract between two private companies.
A second renewable energy facility, also an agrovoltaic park based in Sicily, is expected to produce energy by the end of the year. In total, the two plants will have a production capacity of 104MWp.
“Despite the context of the global crisis, we have continued on our decarbonisation path towards the energy transition. For Engie, this agrovoltaic plant in Mazara del Vallo is fully consistent with our strategy in Italy and in the world,” said Monica Iacono, CEO of ENGIE Italia.
“We have today 500MW of renewable installed capacity in Italy, and our plan is to reach 2GW in 2030 between wind and photovoltaic plants. To achieve these goals, a continuous and constant relationship with the territories and institutions, is essential, along with a stable, simplified legislative and regulatory framework, which we hope will be defined soon.”