Recently, the Italian Energy Services Authority (GSE) announced the results of the agricultural rooftop photovoltaic tender led by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry (MASAF). A total of 22942 projects were selected in this tender, with a total installed capacity of 1.72 gigawatts, and 2.35 billion euros of special funds were allocated and fully used up.

It was disclosed that this tender focused on the construction of rooftop photovoltaic systems in agricultural enterprises across the country, and another 2013 projects with a total installed capacity of 170.5 MW were not supported. It is worth noting that there is a clear difference between the agricultural roof photovoltaic plan promoted this time and the existing agricultural light complementary project in Italy: the former adopts the traditional roof installation mode, which can realize renewable energy power generation without affecting the use of farmland, which not only promotes the sustainable development of agriculture, but also ensures the normal use of land for crop cultivation or animal husbandry. The latter is to integrate photovoltaic system and agricultural production on the same piece of land to realize dual-use of land.

Before the landing of the agricultural roof photovoltaic tender, the Italian agricultural light complementary project has taken the lead in making a breakthrough. In December 2024, Italy completed a round of complementary bidding for agricultural light, with an approved installed capacity of 1.5 gigawatts, attracting 643 bids with a total scale of 1.7 gigawatts, highlighting the market attention. The winning projects are mainly concentrated in southern Italy, which is rich in solar energy resources. At the same time, there are also layouts in the Lazio region and the Emilia-Romagna region, which is in line with the resource endowment advantages of the southern region with sufficient light.

The promotion of the agricultural roof photovoltaic plan is highly compatible with the clean energy development goals of Italy and the European Union. According to Italy's National Energy and Climate Plan, the country aims to increase the share of renewable energy in final energy consumption to 30% by 2030, and the share of renewable energy generation in the power sector is close to 55%. The landing of agricultural roof photovoltaic projects can not only help farms reduce operating costs and improve energy self-sufficiency, but also further expand the distributed photovoltaic industry and bring extensive benefits to rural communities.

From the market feedback, this special budget is fully exhausted, which not only highlights the strong market demand for photovoltaic incentive policies, but also confirms the potential contribution of the agricultural sector to the growth of renewable energy in Italy. At present, Italy is through the agricultural light complementary and agricultural roof photovoltaic two major plans in parallel to promote the model, tap the potential of solar energy, the agricultural sector is positioned as the core pillar of clean energy transformation.

The industry believes that large-scale enterprise participation, considerable installed capacity increment and full investment of special funds highlight the strong development momentum of Italy's renewable energy sector. With the successful projects in succession, it will lay the foundation for Italy to achieve long-term energy sustainability, and also provide a practical model for the integrated development of agriculture and clean energy.