EC approves Italian support for low carbon power
Renewables and gas benefit from new rules at the expense of coal
The European Commission (EC) has approved two schemes aimed at supporting the development of new power generation capacity in Italy. The first is directed at promoting renewable energy while the second revises a capacity market scheme to almost certainly exclude coal-fired power. The EU's executive arm gave the go-ahead, under state aid rules, for a €5.4bn renewable incentive scheme to be in place until 2021. Renewable installations within the scheme will be awarded a premium on top of the electricity market price, which cannot exceed the difference between the average production cost using each renewable technology and the market price for electricity. The scheme also includes a clawback me
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