{"id":5956,"date":"2026-10-01T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:50:34","slug":"business-insights-from-italy-a-letter-to-international-investors-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/10\/business-insights-from-italy-a-letter-to-international-investors-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Insights from Italy \u201cA Letter to International Investors\u201d September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September issue opens, as usual, with an update on Italy\u2019s macroeconomic outlook. This is followed by an in-depth on the <strong>new phase of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR)<\/strong>, focusing on the development of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this month\u2019s sectoral focus is on <strong>battery energy storage systems (BESS)<\/strong>, where Italy stands out as one of Europe\u2019s five leading markets, with 1,9 GW of operational capacity (approximately 20% of the EU total) and the largest pipeline of <strong>projects<\/strong> under development, amounting to <strong>nearly 9 GW<\/strong> of storage capacity. This sector growth is attracting increasing international capital, with <strong>foreign investors<\/strong> accounting for <strong>41% of investments<\/strong> directed to storage projects, a sign of growing confidence in the long-term prospects of the Italian power system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/26.-BUSINESS-INSIGHTS-FROM-ITALY-NUMERO-DI-SETTEMBRE-2026.pdf-Transfer-Esteri.pdf\">September 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The September issue opens, as usual, with an update on Italy\u2019s macroeconomic outlook. This is followed by an in-depth on the new phase of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), focusing on the development of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Finally, this month\u2019s sectoral focus is on battery energy storage systems (BESS), where Italy stands [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}