Solarplaza Summit | Italy

Italy’s rapid expansion of solar is correlated with the rise of energy storage, creating a powerful and mutually reinforcing partnership. This opening presentation explores why the “marriage” between solar and storage is not just convenient but essential for Italy’s evolving energy landscape. We unpack market drivers, regulatory shifts, and the long‑term value this pairing brings to both grid stability and investor confidence.

As BESS markets evolve across Europe, revenue stacks are shifting rapidly, with changing contributions from ancillary services, wholesale markets, and emerging mechanisms such as MACSE. In this context, robust forecasting and adaptive trading strategies are becoming essential to capture value and support bankable project structures.

This presentation explores how developers and operators can combine day-ahead and intraday trading opportunities with ancillary services to build resilient and dynamic revenue stacks. We will focus on how to anticipate market changes, optimize dispatch based on price signals and forecasts, and align technical performance with market exposure.

Attendees will gain a practical framework for navigating evolving revenue streams, identifying high-value trading opportunities, and structuring BESS assets to enhance both returns and long-term project robustness.

IPPs and investors are increasingly shaped by land‑use constraints, agricultural integration requirements, and the growing sophistication of co‑development partnerships. This presentation examines where large‑scale PV and hybrid projects can realistically be built, how agri‑PV is reshaping the permitting and investment landscape, and why co‑development agreements are becoming a strategic necessity. Understand how developers can secure sites, align with landowners and local stakeholders, and structure partnerships that survive Italy’s regulatory and grid‑connection realities.

Italy’s power markets is turning faster and more data‑driven. High‑frequency and low‑latency trading strategies are emerging as a critical lever for maximizing returns from both standalone BESS and hybrid renewable‑plus‑storage portfolios. This presentation explores how algorithmic dispatch, real‑time market signals, and advanced forecasting can unlock new layers of value in the Italian intraday and balancing markets.

This joint presentation explores the landmark long-term tolling agreement between Zelestra and BKW to deliver a massive 2 GWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Northern Italy. It will highlight how this first-of-its-kind financial model guarantees revenue predictability while providing the grid flexibility necessary to support Italy's transition to renewable energy.

Choosing the right high-efficiency module technology is critical to overcoming grid constraints and ensuring asset bankability. In this presentation, Tongwei explores how its vertically integrated supply chain and cutting- technology delivers superior performance and reliability required to optimize project economics across the Italian landscape.

Gerard Reid explores how the global shift from centralized fossil fuels to decentralized, electrified power is fundamentally reshaping national security and economic competitiveness. Successfully navigating this volatile landscape requires "smart capital"—strategic investments that combine clean hardware, intelligent software, and modern grid infrastructure to build highly resilient, localized energy systems.

As developers face increasing pressure to reduce upfront CAPEX and improve financing certainty, alternative structures are gaining relevance in the Italian BESS market.
This presentation explores Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) as a vendor financing model that replaces upfront investment with structured OPEX payments. It outlines how this approach can support project execution, improve bankability, and enable more efficient capital allocation across storage portfolios.

This presentation explores how operators can structure contracts, manage merchant exposure, and navigate regulatory complexity to de‑risk their portfolios. Gain practical insights into building resilient commercial strategies that withstand price swings and policy shifts.

Winning an auction is only half the battle. This session examines how independent, fundamentally-driven price scenarios help project developers and investors diversify across technologies, business models and geographies to build resilient portfolios that are easier to finance.

Italy's BESS market offers more than merchant arbitrage. This session examines how Terna's recently introduced Upward Extraordinary Modulation service is creating a compelling new business case for utility-scale storage. Learn how developers and investors can combine ancillary services with energy arbitrage to improve project economics, reduce payback time, and maximize long-term asset value.

The presentation provides a perspective on emerging economic models, comparing traditional energy assets with integrated “energy + data” configurations, and assessing the potential for value creation for developers and investors.
The growing demand for computing capacity — driven by AI, edge computing and industrial digitalization — is transforming the energy sector, creating a new paradigm: renewable energy as a direct driver for the development of data centers.
Protos’ presentation will explore the emerging potential of “Energy for Data” models, in which  PV & BESS are designed in co-location or operational integration with distributed computing infrastructure. Starting from an analysis of the European market, the presentation will highlight the main investment opportunities and evolving market dynamics, with a particular focus on Italy’s role as a renewable energy hub.