1.Management Summary 1.1. Italy: Sunny future but a slow and chaotic start 1.2. The main conclusion 1.3. SolarPlaza advice 1.4. Major findings and conclusions
2.REPORT INTRODUCTION 2.1. Scope and goals 2.2. Definitions and selections 2.3. Availability of data in 2006 2.4. About SolarPlaza 2.5. The Report 2.6. The Authors
3.General country information 3.1. Facts 3.2. Geography 3.3. Government 3.4. Economy 3.5. Electricity 3.5.1. Consumption 3.5.2. Production 3.6. Business Culture 3.7. Climate and solar irradiation 3.8. Public Opinion about Renewable Energy
4.The Italian PV incentive scheme 4.5. Introduction 4.6. The mechanism 4.7. Value of electricity 4.8. Feed-in-Tariff 4.9. Changes to the scheme 4.10. Fiscal compensation 4.11. The process and procedures 4.12. Local Government Autorization 4.13. process 4.14. Conclusions
5.The Italian PV market 5.5. History of the Italian PV market - to 2005 5.6. Italy as a PV country 5.7. Towards a Feed-in-tariff incentive program 5.8. The situation in 2005 and 2006 5.8.1. Results of the first quarters of the Italian PV Law (2005) 5.8.2. The first quarter of 2006 5.9. RegionAl differences 5.10. Evaluation application data 5.10.1. Class < 50kWp 5.10.2. Class >50kWp 5.11. Market segments 5.12. Conclusions
6.Future outlook 6.5. Realistic growth scenario for the Italian PV market 6.5.1. Elements for composing a realistic growth rate 6.6. Inverter market 6.7. Development of the PV-law 6.8. Conclusions
7.The Solar supply chain 7.5. Structure of the Italian solar PV supply chain 7.6. Solar PV Component & Equipment manufacturers 7.7. Solar PV Product manufacturers 7.8. Wholesalers and Distributors 7.9. Installers and roofers 7.10. End-Users 7.11. Secondary Activities 7.11.1. Gifi 7.11.2. CESI 7.11.3. ISES 7.11.4. ISPRA jrc joint research center 7.11.5. Enea 7.12. Solar Exhibitions and publications 7.12.1. SolarExpo 7.12.2. PV Tech 7.12.3. FV Fotovoltaci, magazine for solar energy 7.13. Energy Utilities 7.14. International Interest in Italian companies 7.15. Conclusions
8.Company Profiles 8.5. Company directory 8.6. Other Italian PV Companies 8.7. International companies in Italy
