Italy: the live status of the Italian electricity grid
Italy's grid, operated by Terna, relies more heavily on gas and imported electricity than most large European grids, having phased out nuclear power entirely after a 1987 referendum. It imports significant power from France, Switzerland and the Balkans, alongside a substantial hydro fleet and a fast-growing solar sector. It is not physically interconnected to Great Britain, so it is included here for comparison rather than as one of GB's own interconnector partners. Demand, generation, day-ahead price and generation mix below are live from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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Italy's reliance on gas and imports - rather than nuclear, which it phased out after a 1987 referendum - sets it apart from most other large European grids.
Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.
Generation mix over the last 24 hours
Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
History
Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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About the Italian grid
Terna operates Italy's transmission grid, part of the Continental Europe synchronous area. Italy phased out nuclear power entirely following a 1987 referendum, and has since relied more heavily on natural gas, hydro and imported electricity than most comparably sized European grids, alongside a fast-growing solar sector, particularly in the south.
Italy imports significant power from France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, and has no direct electrical interconnector with Great Britain. It is included on this site purely for cross-country comparison via the Comparisons page, not because of any GB grid relationship.
Records & context
- Renewable share of demandRecord 41.2% in 2024 - first time above 40% (41% in 2025)
- Record solar output44.3TWh in 2025
- Solar PV installed capacity43.5GW by end of 2025
- Record monthly consumption32.5TWh in July 2026, with a peak of 58.1GW on 15 July (still below the 2015 all-time peak)
- Nuclear generationNone - phased out after a 1987 referendum, last plants closed 1990
- LarderelloSite of the world's first geothermal power plant (1913) - its 34 plants (~800MW) still generate today
Approximate cumulative solar PV capacity by year - growth accelerated sharply from 2023 onwards.
Sources: Terna 2024, Terna 2025, ANSA (July 2026, Terna data), Power Technology (Larderello). Last checked: 2 October 2026.
Data sources for Italy
The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover Italy, so this page draws on a different source instead:
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected transmission system operator to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Italy's own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.
Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow, so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.