LAND RESEARCH FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS

Characteristics and requirements of lands :

To install photovoltaic plants the farmlands, industrial lands, former pits, reclaimed lands or former landfills must have some fundamental requirements :

THE SIZE OF LANDS :
- For industrial lands and former pits : starting from 3 hectares
- For farmlands : starting from 6 hectares

THE INCLINATION OF LANDS :
- With the tracker technology : in case of uniaxial trackers the inclination must be below 15 % .
- Fixed system : in case of fixed installations the inclination must not exceed 25 % .

TRANSFORMER AND DISTRIBUTION STATIONS, ENEL AND TERNA : LINK TO THE SUBSTATIONS
- MEDIUM VOLTAGE SUBSTATIONS : for MV installations, the substations must be adjacent to the land, a few hundred metres away . There are 2 types of medium voltage substations : concrete substations and pole mounted substations .
- HIGH TENSION SUBSTATIONS : they can be found a few Km away depending on the size of the land . The bigger the land, the greater is the distance to connect it with the network . If the land is small, the substation must be nearer .
By opening the orange link it is possible to read the characteristics of the transformer and distribution stations as well as the medium voltage and the high tension substations .

RESTRICTIONS :
- The lands must not have restrictions .

REGIONS OF INTEREST :
- Farmlands : Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Piedmont, Tuscany, Latium, Molise, Basilicata, Campania, Apulia, Sicily, Veneto, Calabria and Abruzzi .
- Industrial lands and former pits : every region .

THIS IS WHAT WE OFFER TO THE LANDOWNERS

PURCHASE : It is possible to proceed with the purchase of the spot bulk buying all the land, sometimes including some unfitted parts that will be quantified after the drawing up of a layout with the illustration of the panels arrangement and the installed power .

BUILDING LEASE ( DDS ) AND ITS CESSION : It is possible to pay an annual fee, an income that in the photovoltaic sector is called “ Cession of the Building Lease ” which lasts for 30 years . With the methods agreed an amount multiplied by the number of hectares is paid annually . The DDS includes the disposal of the installation provided for by law and the restoration of the land to the previous conditions .

DISCOUNTED BUILDING LEASE : The payments for the sale of the building lease are paid in a single discounted solution .

FOLLOWING THE PROCEDURE

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IN – DEPTH STUDY ON THE PHOTOVOLTAIC FIELD

INTRODUCTION

This article is for private shareholders or companies that want to rent their land in order to install photovoltaic systems and have useful information on the sale or rental of land for photovoltaic systems .
In the following article we will try to illustrate the most important topics : we will clarify all the central aspects that are useful for landowners, so that they can better understand how to handle negotiations and pay more attention to middlemen who can be more or less competent .

The rent of an agricultural, industrial, building land, a former pit or a landfill to build a photovoltaic system can be a sustainable choice for the planet . It can be a support for renewable sources of clean energy and at the same time an advantageous opportunity of profit. Keep reading to understand how it works .

LANDS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC STATIONS, FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Is renting a land for the installation of photovoltaic solar panels a good deal ?
Is renting lands for the installation of photovoltaic power stations safe ? Or is it better to sell them ?
Renting lands to install photovoltaic power stations is a good idea, but after that who will be in charge of their disposal ?
Which are the main requirements and characteristics that make an agricultural or industrial land interesting for the installation of photovoltaic power plants ?
Which are the necessary authorizations that a land should have in order to be adequate for the construction of photovoltaic power plants ?
What does the rental contract ( cession of the building lease ) stipulated between investors and landowners provide for ( whether it be for agricultural and industrial lands, landfill or former pit ) ?
What should the landowner pay attention to ?
How to decide between the different offers and the deposits that sometimes are provided at the signing of the preliminary agreement and sometimes after the agreement with Enel or Terna ?
Why is it important to request a layout together with the receipt of the rental offer ( cession of the building lease ), sale, or discounted DDS ?
This is how you can rent an agricultural or industrial land, a former pit or landfill for the installation of photovoltaic power plants .

SELLING OR RENTING A LAND TO INSTALL PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS REQUIRES A SUITABILITY FOR BUILDING

The rent of an agricultural land, a former pit, a landfill reclaimed or to be reclaimed and an industrial land used for the installation of a photovoltaic system, is based on the availability and use of a building land . “ Building ” means that the land has obtained the authorizations issued by the authorities, the permission and authorization for the connection to the electricity network .

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT A LAND SHOULD HAVE ?

LAND REQUIREMENTS

A lot of farmlands, industrial lands, former pits, in order to be suitable for the installation of photovoltaic systems, must have basic requirements, otherwise it is not possible to rent or sell lands for the installation of a photovoltaic system . In the photovoltaic sector and business the following characteristics are the most important ones :

REQUIREMENT NO. 1 EXPOSURE :

There are 2 fundamental conditions for the exposure :
- Level ground
- Hilly ground with a southern exposure

It is a relatively easy requirement to verify, since a compass can be sufficient to check the exposure of the land and with the ” Show Elevation Profile ” function on Google Earth it is also possible to display the slope graph .

THE POWER INSTALLED :

If there is a level ground, according to the technology used :
- With fixed installations you can also install 1 MW per 1 hectares
- With Trackers ( the uniaxial ones for example ) it is possible to install around 1.1 – 1.3 MW in 2 hectares .

FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE CONFIGURATION AND SLOPE OF THE LAND :

An essential element is the conformation / type of land . It must be a level ground or have moderate slopes ( topographic slope ); in case of hilly terrain, a study should be carried out in order to verify if the ground is exposed in a southerly direction and if there are no slopes that will make the installation of panels difficult . Nowadays even if with technology we can work with high slopes using fixed installations, this involves enormous expenditure and sometimes the business plan of a project can be penalized .

Sometimes the land can also have moderate slopes, but in a northerly direction : the slopes penalize the land, because those kind of inclination reduce the output of photovoltaic panels .

REQUIREMENT NO. 2 RESTRICTIONS

The absence of restriction means that the land must not have national, regional, provincial or municipal restrictions ; otherwise, we will only consider the part that is exempt from the constraints . The landowner can check if the land has restrictions by going to the town hall and paying for the issue .

Apart from the exposition, the other crucial aspect that needs to be verified is if the farmlands, industrial lands, former pits, reclaimed and non – reclaimed landfills, are affected by landscape, hydrogeological and hydraulic restrictions, SIC and ZPS restrictions , naturalistic and water protection restrictions as well as restrictions linked to areas adjacent to motorways, railways, rivers, watercourses and others .

The complete analysis of the restrictions is carried out by our internal engineering service, however it is very useful to have the CDU ( Certificato di Destinazione Urbanistica ) that the landowner can request at the town hall ( usually the Town Planning / Environment / Territory office ). The CDU is a document issued by the public administration which contains the urban planning indications concerning a building or a land .

The cost of requesting the CDU can vary from 30 – 40 Euros up to about 60 – 70 Euros depending on the town councils : it can take from one week to more than one month . It is an official document and is drawn up taking into account national, regional, provincial, municipal and other restrictions .
It will be attached to the papers once you decide to sign the Preliminary Agreement to activate the authorization process, which starts with the connection request to the electricity network ( TICA ), the environmental impact assessment ( EIA ) and other subsequent steps .

REQUIREMENT NO. 3 ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION

The adjacency of the lands to an electricity substation or power line is essential . The lands ( farmlands, former pits, industrial lands or landfills ) must be near to an electricity substation, to a medium or high voltage power line, or to a transformer station . This is because creating a new power line involves enormous expenditure .
The adjacency to electricity substations and the connection to the electricity network is perhaps the most important requirement . It is the sword of Damocles because it determines whether to continue or not with a project .

This is a very important characteristic if you want to rent farmlands, industrial lands, former pits and landfills for the construction of photovoltaic systems . A photovoltaic system makes sense only if it is connected to the power line : if the connection costs exceed the maximum allowed, unfortunately the land will not be considered suitable, even if it is a level ground and has no restrictions .

It is not easy to understand the electrical aspect and evaluate whether the land is suitable or not . Various factors must be considered, such as :

- The size in hectares of the land
- The region where the land is located
- The average annual statistical radiation at that latitude
- The type of technology used : for example an uniaxial tracker or a panel with a fixed system, the one that best fits the photovoltaic system that needs to be built .
- The investor ‘s preferences concerning the type of technology that will be used .
- For installations that need to be connected to an Enel medium voltage substation, it is necessary to know the distance in meters between the land and the medium voltage cabin ( concrete substation and pole mounted substation with a transformer attached ) and the distance between the land and the Enel substation 132 KV or 150 KV .
- For the lands where photovoltaic systems will be connected to a Terna substation, meaning those projects in which a high tension is used, it is important to measure the distance between the land ( farmlands, industrial lands, former pits, landfills ) and the electrical substation of Terna at 150 KV or 220 KV or 380 KV . It depends on the power that needs to be installed which is linked to the size in hectares of the lands .
- In case of big lands where large powers are needed, it is possible to build a cabin can that would be quite expensive but it will be possible to bear all the expenses . For small – scale photovoltaic system projects, building a substation or passing the power line over the ground to create a new power line is very expensive and is not convenient for the investment .

Terna and Enel constantly check the structure of the network and, according to their priorities, if there are requests for connections in certain areas they are ready to invest . They can plan the construction of new substations, or the expansion or renovation of lines and increase the capacity of already existing substations ( however this takes a long time and often it is not possible to wait ).

RENTING OR SELLING LANDS TO BUILD PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS ? GUIDE PRICE ?

Renting or selling lands to build photovoltaic power plants has an economic advantage, both in the case of a farmland, former pit or landfill . It is important that the photovoltaic power plants are installed in a professional way, according to the latest technologies and through trustworthy and bankable investors that have gained experience in this sector .

If the check on farmlands, former pits, industrial lands and landfills are successful, meaning that there is a level ground, the land is near to the connection to the electricity network and has no restrictions, it is possible to sign the preliminary agreement between landowner an investor . Then it will be possible to choose between different solutions :

THE RENT OF LANDS OR TO BE MORE PRECISE CESSION OF THE BUILDING LEASE ( DDS ). Usually after 30 years with the payment of a rent, an annual or a six – monthly one; the amount for the rent of farmlands goes from 1800 Euro to hectare per Year to 2500 Euro per hectare per year, up to 3000 Euro per hectare per Year ( for the rent of land, if the connection is on the ground or adjacent to the ground : the electrical substation is 150 KV, 220 KV, 380 KV ) .For industrial lands the amounts may be slightly higher even if for the DDS there are not big differences between farmlands and industrial lands .

THE SELL OF LANDS and purchase of the land by an investor at a price per hectare that needs to be negotiated between the parties ; the amounts are strongly linked to the connection costs of the photovoltaic plants that will be built . The expected average annual irradiation, as well as the average prices for the region considered, the slopes and the conformation of the land itself must also be taken into account . As for the sale of land, sometimes the landowner wants to sell in bulk . However, a part of the land can be unusable because it has restrictions . How to solve this problem without breaking up the estate ? In many cases, it is possible to overcome this problem by buying the land in bulk ( this is the “ body selling ” method ). However it is easier for the investor to purchase suitable parcels only, the ones without restrictions (“ measure selling “ method ). The investor attributes a lower price to unsuitable parcels and finds a selling price that is fair for both parties .

DISCOUNTED RENT OF LAND : It is a method that allows the landowner to rent his land for thirty years to build photovoltaic systems . The landowner remains the owner and receives the rents in a single solution that has a 50 % discount . These are favourable terms if the landowner wants to receive the amount immediately while retaining the title of ownership . Obviously, in this case, the investor renounces to the financial benefit of reducing the payments for the rent of land, and at the same time he does not have the ownership : in this case there is a disadvantage . For these reasons, the discounted amounts regarding the cession of the building lease cannot usually exceed the amounts that, in case of purchase, should be paid .
It is a question of fully understanding the needs of the landowner and suggesting a contractual solution that best fulfils the needs of the parties .
IBS has no advantage over one of the 3 possibilities to proceed, therefore it is neutral and can facilitate a negotiation that satisfactory is for everyone . The same goes for the amounts that need to be paid to the landowner, in case of sale, DDS ( building lease ), discounted DDS . In this case IBS will be able to find a crossover between the parties .

RECOMMENDATIONS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR THE LANDOWNERS
AMOUNTS FOR THE RENT OR SELL OF LANDS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS

The rent / sell of a land can be applied to farmlands, industrial lands, former pits or other lands that are granted for photovoltaic systems . However,

MIDDLEMEN : It is better to be aware of those people who are not specialized in the photovoltaic field and middlemen who promise off – market amounts . The rules in the photovoltaic sector are precise and the Grid Parity amounts that can be paid without government incentives are known and within certain standard values . A reliable investor or a competent operator in the photovoltaic sector will not waste his money and he will need a profit of margin that is the result of the following equation :

PROFITS = SELL OF ENERGY – ( COST OF LAND + CONNECTION COST )

For this reason, if the land is very expensive, outside the market values and the connection is not economic, the photovoltaic project will not be sustainable . Therefore you need to ask yourself whether the person who made the offer, is informed and / or competent .

DEPOSITS AND ADVANCES : The same applies when high amounts are promised to the owner, as a deposit or advance, directly at the sign of the preliminary agreement . This also suggest that it is important to know more about the person that makes the offer .This is because as long as Enel or Terna do not confirm the connection solution ( i.e. in which substation the photovoltaic system should be connected ), it is not possible to confirm the connection costs and the feasibility of the project . Therefore the first deposit is bearable after about 2 – 3 months or within the first 6 – 8 months maximum ( if there are delays or there is an Enel / Terna coordination when photovoltaic systems require it ), when Enel or Terna confirm and officially communicate where our photovoltaic power plant should be connected . At that point every information for the business plan will be available and it will be possible to proceed with the operating project, paying the connection and the deposits to the landowners . Before this moment, we could also make estimates, studies on the feasibility of the substations where a connection is possible, however, only the operators Enel or Terna can confirm the authorization and the photovoltaic project .

LAYOUT : For these reasons, we advise the landowners to ask to those people who send them an offer for the rent of land ( or sale or transfer of the building lease ), a layout of the plant that should be built, together with the power that is expected to be installed, the arrangement of the panels on the usable surface and any particles or areas that have restrictions ( or the configuration of the land that oblige us to reject those areas ) . This will oblige your interlocutors to take a position and the responsibility . If they cannot send you a layout, you need to ask yourself why . Most of the times it is because these people do not have a real buyer and they only want to have preliminary agreements and options on lands . Then they want to arrange a signalling fee with an investor ( at best ) or with other middlemen . However, usually the contracts for the options on the lands, that are submitted and signed by the landowners, who are unaware of this, are ineligible . For this reason, in order to be carried out, they need to be signed again with different clauses . Or we have been contacted several times by landowners who told us about those people ( middlemen but unfortunately in some cases investors too ) who once signed the preliminary agreement, ask to negotiate it downwards after receiving the TICA . Later the landowners noticed that it did not meet their expectations and it was not what was originally promised . This usually happens in the case of off-market prices .

For these reasons, asking for a layout of the photovoltaic power plant that will be built, clear the ground from shady individuals . Anyway the layout of the plant is obligatory in order to have a good offer, it is easier to understand the variables involved and the precise amounts for the rent ( cession of the building lease ) or sell of a land for the construction of a photovoltaic power plant .

THE NECESSARY AUTHORIZATIONS

The rent of farmlands, former pits or reclaimed lands for the installation of a photovoltaic power plant can be a great opportunity . Renting a farmland or allowing the use of an industrial land for the photovoltaic plant can be a great source of income and a thirty-year rent .
If the lands do not have restrictions ( farmlands, industrial lands, landfills, former pits ) it is possible to proceed with the signing of a preliminary agreement, the request of the connection to the electricity network and the planning of a photovoltaic power plant, according to the national rules provided for by law : a single authorization ( AU ) which is not provided for small lands of about 2 hectares installing less than 1 MW where it is possible to use a PAS ( it is a procedure that aims at the construction and exercise of photovoltaic power plants ) .
The licensing process on former pits or industrial lands is easier and quicker because the destination and the code of the lands themselves is similar to the use that concerns the installation of photovoltaic power plants . For the farmland more passages and longer times are needed because the code of destination of the lands, to use as a building land for the installation of a photovoltaic plant should be changed .

Therefore, after having verified the constraints, and having created the engineering layout of the preliminary design of the photovoltaic plants, in the past the connection through the ” General Minimum Technical Solution ( The STMG defines the connection criteria for photovoltaic systems above 1 kWp up to large plants .)” to Enel or Terna was required . Once confirmed by the network operators, it indicated the connection point, the new line that needed to be implemented and built, and an estimate of the costs for the construction . Once the connection solution proposed by Terna or Enel was evaluated and accepted, it was possible to move on to the next step and to send the design of the final project, through which Enel or Terna were authorized to issue the STMD .

Currently in conformity with the resolution no. 99, 2008 ( also see enclosure A to the enclosure ), Enel or Terna do not send the STMG and then the STMD anymore : they directly send a single estimate of connection that in the photovoltaic is known as TICA “ Testo Integrato delle Connessioni Attive ” ( amalgamated law of the technical and economic conditions for connection to electrical networks ).

TICA : Literally Amalgamated Law of the Active Connections. It is the first thing to do to ask for the connection to the electricity network, generally to Enel, or Terna in case of high tension plants . These are the societies that organize the power lines in the photovoltaic sector . TICA estimates the connection to the electricity network and its costs .
For the construction and exercise of the photovoltaic power plant, these activities depend on the release of the DIA ( Dichiarazione di Inizio Attività ) by the municipality at a territorial level or on the release of the single provincial authorization according to the article number 12 of the legislative decree no. 29, 2003 .

DIA : it is a necessary document for the rent of a farmland, industrial land or former pit for the construction of a photovoltaic power plant . DIA, it is the acronym of “ Dichiarazione di Inizio Attività ” and needs to be submitted to the municipality in which the lands are located . Thanks to the DIA the provincial council can release the single authorization and it is possible to start with the work . The DIA is discussed during the conference of regional authorities ( Conferenza dei Servizi ) and the several competent administrations that need to decide .

Generally speaking the single authorization ( AU ) is an obligatory choice for photovoltaic power plants that exceed a determined threshold of power . The licensing process through the single authorization ( AU ), is executed according to the principles that allow a easier procedure through the institution of regional authorities and the convocation by the provincial government, no later than 30 days . Every representatives of the competent territorial administration, who provides and issues the approval regarding the subject of the discussion, is invited to take part in the meeting of the regional authorities as well as the managers of public activities that want to report possible interferences created by photovoltaic plant that are still in progress .

Practically, in order to obtain building lands for the construction of photovoltaic power plants, in the case of the construction of big power plants, the licensing process requests and consists of authorizations : without them it is not possible to start with the work . Among these authorizations the one of the Ministry of Economic Development is essential in order to build the power line, there is the authorization for the archaeological bonds, the authorization from the Basin Authority, the authorization for the landscape bound, the authorization for the environment and the one for the municipal restriction : in short, the authorizations from all the institutions that need to decide for the construction of a photovoltaic power plant .

LANDS, DRAFTS OF OPTION CONTRACTS AND PRELIMINARY AGREEMENTS IN THE PHOTOVOLTAIC FIELD

The kind of agreement or contract that is used to rent a farmland in order to build a photovoltaic power plant is defined as “ cession of the building lease ” or “ selling ” or “ cession of the discounted building lease ” .

Sometimes, for the draft of the preliminary option submitted to the landowners for the signing, the landowners make use of law firms that do not have a specific competence in the photovoltaic field . And sometimes, the lawyers that defend the landowners ( farmlands, former pit, industrial lands, it does not matter except for some specific events ) demand structural changes that most of the times cannot be done . This is because the agreements and the rules for drawing up a contract should be “ eligible ” meaning that they need to protect the investor against the risks connected to the licensing process . For example in a country like Italy, famous for its slowness at a bureaucratic level and the several authorities that need to approve the cession of a single authorization which gives the suitability for the building and construction of photovoltaic power plants through solar panels .
Due that these amounts are not small it is advisable to rely on experts in the photovoltaic field and ask for a second opinion : in this way it will be possible to proceed without problems or surprises and everything will be easier .

THE LEASING AGREEMENT

When an investor or an engineering or planning company pursue the authorization procedures ( farmland, industrial land or former pits ) and meet all the requirements in order to be considered suitable to install a photovoltaic power plant, the important thing to do is to draw up a contract or a draft of a preliminary rental option (or better “ cession of the building lease ”) or purchasing by the investor or engineering company with a proxy by the investor himself .

The main points of the building lease contract are :

- The annual rent : the amounts are normally paid to the landowner in a single sum for the cession of the building lease . If the lands are near an electric substation the price increases .
- The duration of the rent ( cession of the building lease ): 30 years
- The time of payment : usually the annual rent in advance is paid to the landowner .
- Restoring lands and places : after 30 years from the cession of the building lease, the investor who rents the land in order to build the photovoltaic power plant must dismantle the plant itself . In addition to those laws, which are valid on a national level and protect the landowners, some regions ( such as Lombardy ) require the investor to deposit a bank guaranty in security of the disposal of the plant with the amounts provided for the activities .

THIS IS HOW THE BUILDING LEASE FOR ROOFS AND LANDS WORKS

Are you the owner of a land or a roof and want to earn something from it ? Is there somebody who wants to invest in the photovoltaic field ? What is the building lease for the photovoltaic plant ?
The cession of the building lease is the perfect solution for the owners of lands or roofs who want to make them available for the installation of the photovoltaic plant and want to invest in them .
On one side there are those people who have suitable surfaces for the photovoltaic ( for example : the roof of a store or warehouse, a sunroof, a land ) who are not ready to take upon themselves the installation or the management of a photovoltaic plant that produces clean energy .
On the other side there are those people who invest, purchase the legal ownership of the area or the covering, install a photovoltaic power plant and produce clean energy in order to obtain a marginality after the selling of the energy .

The cession of the building lease for the photovoltaic is an interesting solution :

- The owner of the roof transfers the building leases of an unproductive area and rents it ( for farmlands it is a bit different because they can be used for agricultural purposes, for industrial lands it depends ).
- Those who buy the building leases and become the owner in order to build a photovoltaic power plant, can benefit from it without being the owner of the land or the roof in which it is realized .
- Basically the advantages of surface rights are : whoever becomes the owner of the area, has the availability of the surface on which the photovoltaic plant should be built, without being the owner, being the owner of the photovoltaic plant without being the owner of the roof or the ground on which it is installed . As a quid pro quo the owner of the plant pays to the transferor ( owner of the roof, land ), an annual rent in cash or in the case of roofs also part of the energy produced .

THE DEFINITION OF BUILDING LEASE IN THE PHOTOVOLTAIC FIELD :

Through the building lease it is possible to distinguish and divide the document of title of the roof or of the land from the document of title of the building, in particular the photovoltaic power plant .
The building lease gives the right to build the photovoltaic power plant or, generally speaking, a construction on a surface ( roof or land ) without being the owner of the roof or of the land, that is the surface itself .
Paradoxically with the purchase of the building lease it is possible to realize elevations of small buildings, that is having the permission to build and then sell apartments that, for example are in a roof spaces .
Who is selling and buying the energy produced ? The energy produced by a photovoltaic power plant can be sold in situ or to a single person ( which is the most convenient solution in order to avoid energy dissipation ) or sold to the national electricity network .

INVESTORS IN QUEST OF BUILDING LANDS THAT CAN BE RENTED : A RISING BUSINESS

The hunt for farmlands, industrial lands, former pits is open everywhere nationally . The lands that are already authorized, meaning those lands where it is possible to build the photovoltaic plants immediately, are building lands . The building lands are those lands that concluded the licensing process of the single authorization and that received all the necessary authorizations, the network connection and the diverse authorizations to start building photovoltaic power plants .
Other people, the so – called “ developer ” work in the Greenfield sector : they do the hard work of finding websites, doing checks and planning . They are assisted by companies that have a significant engineering track record .

However the photovoltaic business in Grid Parity ( that is government incentives ) is lucrative and the investors have greater conviction and capital . This is because the market trend of energy will bring to an adequate marginality in order to justify an investment in the Green Economy .

RENEWABLE ENERGY, PRODUCTION OF ENERGY, LANDS AND ROOFS, PROTECTION OF THE LANDSCAPE, SUSTAINABILITY, EUROPEAN GOALS 2030

The photovoltaic business started in 2006, after the gualification according to the DECREE no. 37, the 22nd January 2008 Former law 46 / 1990 letters a) and b) that controlled the installation, transformation, development, maintenance of plants and electrical and electronic systems .

The production of energy through renewable sources is absolutely a development compared to carbon or the energy sources at high environmental impact . Sometimes on the other hand there is a blot on the landscape after a heavy installation of photovoltaic panels and installations in some agricultural areas .
Without doubt when we install on roofs, warehouses, shelters, sunroofs or domestic production of energy for private costumers and companies, we avoid spoiling the landscape, great production of electric energy that is concentrated on one single point : in this way the energy produced will be transformed and transported with considerable dissipation and losses and risks that derive from the transport of energy and the creation of electromagnetic fields .

However roofs, shelters, warehouses and self production are not enough to move the total national production toward renewable sources ; the big plants can produce big amounts of energy that are comparable to the small nuclear power plants, without the problem of producing radioactive waste .

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