On Friday 10 November, the European Commission announced that it had authorised, under EU State aid rules, an Italian scheme worth €1.7 billion to support the construction and operation of new agro-voltaic power plants with a total capacity of 1.04 GW and an electricity production of at least 1,300 GWh/year in Italy.
This scheme will be partly financed through the ‘Recovery and Resilience Facility’, the main instrument of the Next Generation EU recovery package.
Aid will be...