The Austrian OeMAG energy agency has launched €36m investment grant scheme for small-scale solar PV installations up to 500 kW and electricity storage systems up to 60 MWh. Rooftop solar installations will receive €24m in rebates (maximum grant of €250/kW for solar capacities) and storage systems will receive the remaining €12m (€200/kWh of storage). This measure is expected to raise rooftop solar capacity in Austria by 100 MW and storage capacity by 60 MWh.
In Italy the regional government of Lombardy has approved a similar scheme, offering €10m investment grants to state and regional public entities installing solar-plus-storage systems. They will receive a 50% rebate on the price of solar-plus-storage systems or 100% of the cost of storage systems to be installed at existing solar arrays, with an upper limit of €100,000 per applicant. Lombardy has subsidised residential and commercial electricity storage systems since 2016, raising the initial budget of €2m to €4m in 2017.
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