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. The rapid growth in the deployment of solar, wind and bio energy in recent years lead Italy to produce over 40% of its electricity from renewable sources.
- Hydroelectric power is the leading renewable energy source in terms of production, Hydroelectric plants are especially widespread in the north, where there are many rivers and mountains.
- Solar power in Italy increased rapidly in the last ten years. The years 2009-2013 saw a boom in installed photo-voltaic and 2013's year-end capacity ranked third in the world, ahead of the United States at that time.
- Wind energy Italy has made good progresses bringing the total number of installed wind turbines over 6,730 and reaching a Capacity at the end of 2017 of 9.50 GW.
- Geothermal energy, we are proudly to be the first producer of this power in Europe.The total energy from Geothermal was 5.3 GWh. All the plants are in Tuscany in the provinces of Grosseto, Pisa and Siena which are considered province with 100% use of renewable energies and Siena has received the Title of Carbon free province.
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