Italy Key Figures
- Population:
- 58.7 million
- GDP growth rate:
- 0.92 %/year
- Energy independence:
- 24.6%
Data of the last year available: 2023
- Total consumption/GDP:*
- 72.2 (2005=100)
- CO2 Emissions:
- 5.00 tCO2/capita
- Rate of T&D power losses:
- 6.10%
* at purchasing power parity
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Italy Total Energy Consumption
Italy's per capita energy consumption is 17% lower than the EU average (2.3 toe in 2023). Electricity consumption per capita is 9% below the EU average at around 4 900 kWh.
Total energy consumption has been declining by 46%/year since 2021, reaching 136 Mtoe in 2023, in a context of high energy prices and geopolitical concerns. Overall, it has decreased by 27% since 2005 and now stands 7% below its 1990 level. The decrease in primary consumption is mainly due to higher power imports and the increased share of renewables in the power mix.
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Italy Crude Oil Production
Crude oil and NGL production is low, ranging between 4 and 6.5 Mt/year since 2000. After a 9%/year decrease between 2020 and 2022, crude oil and NGL production rose by 12% to 5.4 Mt in 2023.
Crude oil imports dipped by 1.7% in 2023 to 63 Mt (90% of oil consumption). Four suppliers accounted for 57% of crude oil supply in 2023, namely Azerbaijan (18%), Libya (17%), Iraq (12%), and Kazakhstan (10%). Russia did not export oil to Italy in 2023 (19% of imports in 2022).
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Italy Oil Products Consumption
Oil product consumption has returned to its 2016-2019 average of around 51 Mt after a 15% drop in 2020. It had declined rapidly between 2005 and 2013 (-5%/year from 83 Mt to 54 Mt) and at a slower pace until 2019 (-1%/year).
Graph: OIL CONSUMPTION (Mt)
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Italy Natural Gas Consumption
Between 2021 and 2023, gas consumption fell by 10%/year to 62 bcm in 2023, due to record high gas prices, mild temperatures, lower industrial demand, consumer efforts, and a lower demand from the power sector (34% surge in hydropower generation and rising wind and solar generation in 2023). Gas consumption in 2023 was as low as its 2014 level. It had reached a peak at 86 bcm in 2005 and declined by 3.6%/year until 2014, before recovering by 4%/year until 2019 (rising consumption in the power sector).
Graph: NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION (bcm)
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Italy Coal Consumption
Coal consumption fell by 32% to 7.8 Mt in 2023, back to its 2020 level. It more than halved between 2010 and 2020, due to the closure of coal-fired power plants and higher competition from gas and renewables and recovered in 2021 (+11%) and 2022 (+33% to 11.5 Mt), as lower hydropower generation and high gas prices raised coal demand from the power sector (+51% in 2022).
Power generation accounted for 72% of coal consumption in 2023 (77% in 2010) and industry consumed most of the remainder (27%).
Graph: COAL CONSUMPTION (Mt)
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Italy Power Consumption
Electricity consumption has been declining since its 2021 rebound (-1.7% in 2022 and -3.4% in 2023), reaching 286 TWh in 2023, i.e., 8% below its 2010 level and 5% below its 2019 level. Surging electricity prices in 2022 and still high prices in 2023 contributed to reduce demand in the industrial sector.
Graph: ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION (TWh)
Italy Renewable in % Electricity Production
Italy exceeded by 3.4 points its 2020 renewable targets, with a share of renewables in final energy consumption reaching 20.4%. In 2022, renewables covered 19% of final energy consumption (37% for electricity, 21% for heating and cooling, and 10% for transport).
The updated NECP (2024) raised the 2030 targets for renewables in final consumption to 39.4% (+9.4 points), including 63% for electricity (, 36% for heating and cooling, and 34% in transport. It also targets 42% to 54% of renewable hydrogen in total hydrogen consumption in industry by 2030.
Interactive Chart Italy Share of Renewables in Electricity Production (incl hydro)
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Italy CO2 Fuel Combustion/CO2 Emissions
The updated NECP (2024) aims at cutting GHG emissions for all ETS sectors by 58% (up from 43% in the 2019 NECP) and for all non-ETS sectors by up to 29% in 2030 (from 33%) compared to 2005. Italy also aims to remove 28 MtCO2 from the LULUCF sector.
GHG emissions remained stable in 2022 (0.2%) at 389 MtCO2eq, i.e. 25% below their 1990 level, after a 10% rebound in 2021 and a 38% decrease from their peak at 568 MtCO2eq in 2007 until 2020