The Italian energy agency GSE has announced the results of the second round of the Fer X renewable energy incentive plan for solar auctions, allocating a total installed capacity of 1.1 GW.
For the first time, this auction applied the industrial resilience standards from the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), explicitly prohibiting projects over 1 MW from using modules, cells, or inverters originating from China.
The final average winning bid was €0.06637 ($0.078) per kWh, 27.7% lower than the GSE’s set ceiling price of €0.073 per kWh but approximately €0.01 per kWh higher than the average price in the first round (which did not include NZIA standards).
The GSE reviewed 273 projects (totaling 3.16 GW), with 88 projects ultimately winning the auction.
Among these, only two power plants exceeded 100 MW in scale:
The largest project, developed by Alta Capital 3 Srl (under London-based Alta Capital Fund), is a 180 MW facility located in Butera, Sicily. It applied for and was granted an incentive reduction rate of 27.018% (applicable to the 144 MW portion).
The second-largest project, developed by Solaer Clean Energy Italy 18 Srl, a subsidiary of Spain’s Zelestra, is located in Monreale, Sicily, with a capacity of 107.9 MW. It received an incentive reduction rate of 31.581% (applicable to the 62 MW portion).
The first round of the Fer X auction allocated 7.7 GW of solar projects with an average electricity price of €0.05682 per kWh. It received 1,387 project applications, with a total capacity of 17.537 GW.
