The paper deals with the efficiency and effectiveness of renewable energy support in Europe in order to achieve the target of 20% of final consumption in 2020. The reconciliation of subsidisation of carbon free energy sources and competition in the energy sector creates serious problems to the...

A massive deployment of renewable electricity generation took place in Italy in less than eight years. A generous feed-in tariff, coupled with favourable institutional conditions, allowed the installation of more than 28 GW of PV, wind and other RES technologies. By 2014, Italy has already...