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 isn't physically interconnected to Great Britain, so it's 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.
- Data as of
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- Day-ahead price
- €78.40/MWh
- Demand
- 40.0GW
- Generation
- 34.0GW
Illustrative figures in the rough range of Italy's actual totals, not a live reading. Each figure shows an illustrative trend over the last 3 hours.
Generation mix right now
Illustrative figures - see data sources.
| Source | GW | % |
|---|---|---|
| Fossil fuels | 13.3 | 39.1 |
| Gas | 13.3 | 39.1 |
| Renewables | 11.7 | 34.4 |
| Solar | 4.9 | 14.4 |
| Hydro | 4.3 | 12.6 |
| Wind | 2.5 | 7.4 |
| Other & storage (net imports, oil, geothermal, biofuels) | 9.0 | 26.5 |
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.
Demand
Generation
Day-ahead price
About the French 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's included on this site purely for cross-country comparison via the Comparisons page, not because of any GB grid relationship.
Context
- Nuclear generationNone - phased out entirely after a 1987 referendum
- Renewable share of demand~41% in 2024 (record year)
- World's first geothermal power plantLarderello, opened 1913 - still generating today
- Solar PV installed capacityRoughly doubled since 2020, ~43.5GW by end of 2025
Approximate cumulative solar PV capacity by year - growth accelerated sharply from 2023 onwards.
Figures are approximate, gathered from public Terna/GSE and IEA-PVPS reporting rather than a long-run historical feed. Last checked: 23 August 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 don't 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 isn't set or ingestion hasn't run yet.
Two figures aren't shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E doesn't publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data doesn't include cross-border physical flow, so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they're left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.