The call to access the financing of the ‘Parco Agrisolare’ measure, the 1.5 billion euros of photovoltaic funds in agriculture allocated by the NRP, will be published by 31 March. The project involves the installation of electricity production systems in agriculture, totally excluding land consumption, on the roofs of so-called “productive use” buildings, such as stables and farmhouses.
The goal is to achieve the installation of photovoltaic panels on a total area of 4.3 million square meters for 0.43 GW. Once sent, the applications of the call – the Ministry of Agriculture informs – will then be managed by the Electricity Service Manager indicated by Mipaaf as actuator of the Pnrr intervention line, with which a ‘public-public agreement is being prepared which will allow immediately the implementation operations of the photovoltaic programs whose applications will have received a favorable opinion.
“The publication of the call by 31 March to access 1.5 billion in loans for the installation of photovoltaic panels on thousands of roofs of stables and farms, without the consumption of soil, is a first important response to our mobilization in support of the countryside, in the interest of farmers and consumers, ”said the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini. The confederation of farmers has always considered photovoltaics an opportunity to contain energy costs. “The mobilization of Coldiretti now continues – concludes Prandini – with the aim of freeing the 1.2 billion for supply chain contracts, encouraging the restructuring and renegotiation of the debt of agricultural enterprises over 25 years through the guarantee of the 100% public and free of Ismea and that speculations on the prices paid by farmers are stopped, with an effective application of the decree on unfair practices “.