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Renewable energy has developed rapidly in Italy over the past decade and provided the country a means of diversifying from its historical dependency on imported fuels. Solar power accounted for around 8% of the total electric production in the country in 2014, making Italy the country with the highest contribution from solar energy in the world that year. [2]
In the last decade, Italy has become one of the world's largest producers of renewable energy, ranking as the second largest producer in the European Union and the ninth in the world. Wind power , hydroelectricity , and geothermal power are also important sources of electricity in the country .
All of the 8,047 Italian municipalities have deployed some source of renewable energy, with hydroelectric power being the leading renewable energy source in terms of production. The wind energy target, 5.3% of the total electricity use, is the 6th lowest in the European Union, [note 4] whose average target in wind is 14% in 2020.
Given that Italy's recent growth in wind power capacity has been about 30% annually, in 2008 the target appeared reachable by 2015. [4] Italy introduced a renewable energy quota system in 2002, and uses green certificates to ensure that power producers and importers produce specified percentages of electricity from renewables. Renewable energy ...
The Directive 2009/28/EC establishes a framework for promoting the use of renewable energy sources. [42] [40] According to this Directive, 17% of Italy's final energy consumption must be supplied by renewable sources in 2020. Italy's 2010 National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) identifies sectoral targets and how to achieve them. In the ...
View of Larderello with one of the biggest geothermal plant in Italy. Geothermal power accounts for about 1.6-1.8% of the total electric energy production in Italy and is about 7% of the total renewable energy produced in 2010. [1]: 95 The total energy from Geothermal was 5,660 GWh in 2015. Italy is the seventh country by geothermal installed ...
In December 2024, Potentia Energy was established as a new entity co-owned by Enel Green Power and INPEX for the development of renewable energy projects. The new company has over 7 GW of projects included in its development pipeline, focusing on wind, solar, energy storage systems, and hybrid projects. [69]
China produced 31% of global renewable electricity, followed by the United States (11%), Brazil (6.4%), Canada (5.4%) and India (3.9%). [1] Renewable investment reached almost $500 billion globally in 2022, [2] amounting to 83% of new electric capacity that year. [3] The renewable energy industry employs almost 14 million people. [4]