Italy has 396 power plants in this atlas, with 73,095 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is MONTALTO (Alessandro Volta) (3,446 MW, gas; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are solar, hydro and gas. Grid operators listed here include Terna. Electricity is regulated by ARERA. Renewables supplied 50.2% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Italy
Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail
Gas is the main fuel, with hydro, solar and imports. GME runs the power exchange, split into price zones. The regulated household tariff ended in 2024.
Part of the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the largest interconnected grid in the world by customers, coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.
What does “Liberalised market” mean?
Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
The Alps form Italy’s northern arc, while the Apennines run through its Mediterranean peninsula. Sicily and Sardinia add large island systems; hydro, geothermal and thermal records show contrasting regional settings.
Capital
Rome
Languages
Italian
Major cities
Rome, Milan, Naples
Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 396 records for Italy. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
396 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 396 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
