Descrizione 1
Antonio Caputo, Giulia Iorio, Francesca Palomba
Final electricity consumption grew steadily from 1990 to 2008, then declined due to the economic crisis. From 2015, consumption resumed growth until stabilizing in 2017. Following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, 2020 consumption dropped by 5.7% compared to the previous year, with a rebound of 6.2% in 2021. In 2022, consumption decreased by 1.8% compared to 2021, settling at 24.7 Mtep (million tonnes of oil equivalent). The industrial sector's share of consumption fell from 51.7% in 1990 to 38.9% in 2022, while the civil sector (residential and tertiary) increased from 43.2% to 55.6%. The agriculture and fisheries sector remained nearly constant at around 2%, and the transport sector, despite fluctuations, stayed stable at 3.1%.
This indicator provides information on the electricity demand of the national economy as a whole and of individual sectors.
To assess trends in electricity consumption at both national and sectoral levels, with the aim of reducing energy use.
With Decision No. 1386/2013/EU, the European Union established the 7th Environmental Action Programme up to 2020. On 29 March 2022, the EU Council adopted the 8th Environmental Action Programme for the period 2021–2030.
No specific targets are currently applicable to this indicator.
Descrizione 2
MASE, National Energy Balance (BEN), https://sisen.mase.gov.it/dgsaie/
TERNA S.p.A., Statistical Data on Electricity in Italy, various years
The national data have been updated in accordance with the new Eurostat classification. Starting from the 2019 data, TERNA has reclassified economic activities by adopting the ATECO2007 classification, which may result in inconsistencies between 2019 and previous years.
Qualificazione dati
TERNA S.p.A., Statistical data on electricity in Italy
ENEA, Regional energy balances
EUROSTAT, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
National
1990-2022
Qualificazione indicatore
The data are collected by Terna Rete Italia S.p.A. through a census-based survey of electricity sector operators, using web-based acquisition of key electrical variables. The national data have been updated in accordance with the new Eurostat classification. In addition to the national data collected by Terna and reported to the Ministry of Economic Development, regional-level data are estimated by ENEA based on the Regional Energy Balances.
In 2022, electricity consumption amounted to 24.7 Mtoe, marking a 1.8% decrease compared to the previous year. A detailed sectoral analysis reveals differing trends: while the industry and agriculture & fisheries sectors experienced year-on-year declines of 5% and 1.4% respectively, the transport and civil sectors registered increases of 4.9% and 0.2%, respectively. The share of electricity consumption was 38.9% for industry, 55.6% for the civil sector (tertiary and residential), 2.3% for agriculture and fisheries, and 3.1% for transport (Table 1).
Final electricity consumption increased steadily from 1990 to 2008 (+44.1%), followed by a decline starting in 2009 (−6.2% compared to 2008) due to the economic crisis. A recovery in electricity consumption was observed in 2010 and 2011, followed by a new downward trend until 2014. From 2015 onward, consumption resumed growth and reached a stable level starting in 2017. In 2020, a sharp decline was recorded as a result of lockdown measures implemented to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (−5.7% compared to 2019), followed by a rebound of 6.2% in 2021 and a subsequent decrease of 1.8% in 2022 (Table 1). The share of electricity consumption in the industrial sector decreased from 51.7% in 1990 to 38.9% in 2022; the civil sector (tertiary and residential) increased from 43.2% to 55.6%; the agriculture and fisheries sector remained nearly constant at around 2%; while the transport sector, despite some fluctuations, remained stable at 3.1% (Figure 1).
Dati
Table 1: Final Electricity Consumption (thousands of toe)
TERNA
*Starting from 2019, TERNA reclassified the economic activities using the ATECO2007 classification system, which may result in discrepancies between 2019 data and those of previous years.
Figure 1: Share of Final Electricity Consumption by Sector
TERNA
*As of 2019, TERNA reclassified economic activities using the ATECO2007 classification system, which may lead to inconsistencies between 2019 data and those of previous years.
In 2022, national final electricity consumption amounted to 24,666 ktep (Table 1). Excluding the decline observed in 2020 and aside from the industrial sector, all sectors show an overall upward trend in electricity consumption. In the civil sector, the 56.5% increase in electricity consumption between 1990 and 2022 is attributable both to improved household living standards—which has led to the widespread adoption of durable goods—and to greater electricity use in the tertiary sector. The consistently rising trend in civil sector consumption showed only a slight decline in 2013 and 2014 due to the economic crisis, and a contraction in 2020 in the services sector due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, followed by a rebound in 2021 (+12.6% compared to 2020). From 1990 to 2022, residential electricity consumption increased by 22.6%, while consumption in the services sector rose by 137.3%. In 1990, the respective shares of electricity consumption in the residential and services sectors were 24.6% and 18.6%. Starting in 2003, the share of electricity consumption in the services sector surpassed that of the residential sector, reaching 33.1% in 2022 compared to 22.5% in the residential sector (Table 1).