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Season Greetings from Linea Trovata Italia.

We would like to thank you for your confidence in us. Hoping you are happy and smiling always. We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and look forward to an exiting and successful year to come. Our outlook for 2011 is sunny!

Conto energia 2011+

As is known, Italian PV market currently suffers market uncertainty, because it is still not clear what exactly the new tariffs incentive after 2010 will be. Even though the Ministerial Decree of 19 February 2007 which established the Nuovo Conto Energia Bill has announced several times to provide a tariff revision 2011, down to the present day there was no new ministerial decree or binding decision by Italian government.

The three Italian PV associations GIFI ANIE, APER and ASSOSOLARE, decided to take action and have developed a common understanding and shared inherent in the revision of the Energy Bill 2011. Their proposal was sent to the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Environment.

The proposal includes:

1. New feed-in tariff shall be valid for five years (2011-2015) and the total power to reached through new incentives in this five-year period shall be raised from 1.200 to 8.000 MWp;
2. New feed-in tariff shall only have a decrease of 4% per year, starting from July 2012, after the incentive came into force in 2011, with the aim of underpinning the market towards the "grid parity";
3. Reformulation of the subdivision for power classes into new groupings: 1-6 kW, 6-20 kW, 20-200 kW 200-1.000 kW and over 1.000 kW;
4. Adoption of only two types of installation and simpler: "on earth" and "on building"; and
5. Special provision of special bonuses:

• for total architectural integration of photovoltaics (+15%);
• for installation in areas affected by environmental as quarries and landfill at the end of life cycle (+10%); as well as
• for the replacement of asbestos roofing and Eternit (+10%).

Here is the table of new incentive rates as proposed common of GIFI ANIE, APER and ASSOSOLARE:

Classi di Potenza kWp	Impianti a Terra €/kWh (vs. 2010)	Impianti su Edificio €/kWh
1-6	0,365 (-5%)	0,401 (-5%)
6-20	0,339 (-7%)	0,375 (-7%)
20-200	0,313 (-9%)	0,330 (-14%)
200-1.000	0,304 (-12%)	0,323 (-16%)
> 1.000	0,297 (-14%)	0,315 (-18%)

Sources: pienosole.it, GIFI ANIE, APER, ASSOSOLARE.