One of the UK’s leading clean energy solutions companies has secured its first planning approvals and contracts in Italy.

Construction is to start early in 2023 on Enviromena’s two multi million-pound solar farm projects which are set to be a part of a pipeline of over 200MWp across Italy and Sardinia.

These two sites are anticipated to generate a combined 4,000MWh of green energy per annum.

The two solar farms are located in the towns of Alliste and Collepasso in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region in the south east, forming the heel of Italy’s “boot”. Crucially, the projects have been successfully registered for the FER 1 Decree incentive, introduced by the Italian government in 2019 to incentivise the introduction of renewable energy. They have both secured an attractive incentive tariff (per MWh generated) which is fixed for 20 years.

Enviromena has an office base in Italy’s capital, Rome, which will support the company’s execution of its existing Italian portfolio and also enable the company to attract more business in Italy.

Construction of the two projects will commence in January and is set to complete in the Summer of 2023. Enviromena’s Chief Executive Officer, Cabell Fisher, said: “These sites are tremendously exciting and they are important for us because they represent Enviromena’s first projects in Italy. Not only do they demonstrate our capability, but also our commitment to continuing the expansion of Enviromena’s presence into the broader European market.”

He added: “These sites form a small part of Enviromena’s much larger 250MW Italian pipeline of solar projects and I am proud of our team and our partner’s demonstrated ability to deliver large scale renewable energy solutions across the European continent.”

Enviromena is one of the UK’s largest clean energy solutions companies and has more than 1.7 GW of active solar farms and battery energy storage systems in development and operation throughout the UK and Europe.