How wind power grew in Italy
The earliest grid connection in the wind association's 2001 list of Italian plants is at Villacidro in Sardinia, where two 160 kW turbines were connected in spring 1987. Enel connected a 400 kW turbine at Alta Nurra in April 1991. Bisaccia in Campania had seven machines running from January 1992. Larger farms came from 1996, when the developer IVPC began building them. Offshore wind began with a 30 MW farm at Taranto, inaugurated in April 2022 as the first offshore farm in the Mediterranean.
Price rules known as CIP 6, set on 29 April 1992 and applied from 1993, paid renewable plants an incentive on top of avoided costs. A green certificate obligation from a 1999 decree took effect in 2002, starting at 2%. It stopped applying from 2016. Auctions followed under a decree of 4 July 2019. The largest operators at the end of 2025 were ERG, with 1,492 MW, Edison Rinnovabili and Enel Green Power. Vestas turbines made up 6,083 MW, about 46% of capacity.
Terna counted 13,629 MW of wind at the end of 2025. Wind generated 21.4 TWh in 2025, about 7% of demand. Over 90% of capacity is in six southern regions, led by Puglia with 3,569 MW. The national plan targets 28.1 GW by 2030, including 2.1 GW offshore. That is about 14.5 GW more than was installed at the end of 2025.
Sources: ANIV · ARERA · ARERA · ARERA · ANEV · Alliance News · Windtech International · Renewable Matter
Where Italy's power comes from, 2025
| Source | Share of electricity |
|---|---|
| Gas | 47.4% |
| Solar | 16.9% |
| Hydro | 15.7% |
| Wind | 8.1% |
| Bioenergy | 5.9% |
| Other fossil fuels | 2.5% |
| Geothermal and other renewables | 2.1% |
| Coal | 1.4% |
Wind farms in Italy
We track 402 wind farms in Italy: 10.4 GW operating and 52.0 GW under construction, consented or planned, with 51.3 GW of it offshore. Each one's owners, turbines and status are in the Wind app.
Electricity data: Ember yearly electricity data (CC BY 4.0). Wind farms: national registers and Global Energy Monitor; see data sources.
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