Over 23 billion euros of investments in the next 10 years: Terna presents his Development Plan 2025-2034 which provides for a 10% increase compared to the previous one and "consolidates Terna's role in serving the country for a sustainable and decarbonized future". The interventions envisaged by the Plan, underlines Terna's management presenting the main objectives in the presence of the Minister of the Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, are essential for the pursuit of national and European objectives of energy transition, independence, resilience ed electrical system efficiency.
The 2025 Development Plan is consistent with the targets defined by the 2024 National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate, set out in the Terna-Snam 2024 Scenario Description Document, which envisages an increase in installed solar and wind capacity of over 65 GW by 2030 and 94 GW by 2035, both compared to the installed capacity in 2023.
Terna, increases trading capacity between market zones
The Terna interventions included in the 2025-2034 Development Plan will allow "a significant increase in energy exchange capacity between market zones, reaching approximately 39 GW compared to the current 16 GW, with an increase of 22% compared to the previous Plan”. This is how the company presented the plan. In addition, the Plan aims to “increase the transport capacity with foreign countries by approximately 40% compared to current values”, considering “all the works included in the Plan even beyond the ten-year horizon, thanks to future electrical interconnection projects that will increase the reliability and security of the network”.
Terna, expected reduction of CO2 emissions
By 2030, thanks to the interventions included in the Development Plan, it is expected – according to the numbers provided by the company – a overall reduction of CO2 emissions up to approximately 2.000 kt/year, and up to 12.100 kt/year by 2040; the latter represents a 2,5% improvement over the previous Development Plan.
Terna, what CEO Di Foggia said
“The Development Plan presented today responds to the urgent needs that the current context imposes. Investing in planning, in the modernization and in the digitalization of electricity networks it is in fact essential to meet the growing demand for energy and the integration of renewable sources. With 23 billion euros over the next ten years, we aim to ensure the country has a reliable, resilient and sustainable system”, he declared Josephine of Foggia, CEO of Terna.
“An adequate and interconnected transmission network, together with the current legislative measures and incentive tools, is the enabling factor for achieving the targets set by the National Energy and Climate Plan to 2030. The start of the construction phase of our main electrical infrastructures, such as the Tyrrhenian Link, the Adriatic Link and the connection between Sardinia, Corsica and Tuscany, confirms Terna's commitment to managing the country's energy transition", he added.
Terna: Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Link operational by 2030
According to Terna's plan, the electrical infrastructure will be operational by 2030. Tyrrhenian Link, which will unite the Sicily to Campania and Sardinia,Adriatic Link between Abruzzo and Marche, the link between Sardinia, Corsica and Tuscany and the energy bridge Italy-Tunisia.
“The start of the construction phase of our main electrical infrastructures, such as the Tyrrhenian Link, the Adriatic Link and the connection between Sardinia, Corsica and Tuscany, confirms Terna's commitment to managing the country's energy transition”. The timing was announced by CEO Di Foggia.
Terna, what President De Biasio said
The 2025 Development Plan is “the most important ever achieved by Terna in its history and it is a plan that I believe underlines three elements in this quick introduction of mine that I want to bring to the table today". This was stated by the president of Terna Igor De Biasio, during the presentation of the plan.
“This is a plan that improves the country because through those investments we can be enablers towards the energy transition, towards the decarbonization, enabling connections to new forms of green production but above all also uniting, connecting and integrating the territories thus helping all Italian communities towards the development of the energy transition”, underlines the president.
Pichetto Fratin: Renewables and Virtual Congestion? Measure Coming Soon
To answer the “virtual congestion” which clogs the network with requests for connection of renewable energy systems that are then not built, blocking others from arriving, "we will have to define a mechanism whereby either they make the systems or the request lapses. You can give some time, but after the network has been saturated with requests for 4-5 years because they have presented requests and have not followed them up, the request must lapse. In the next few days we will define the procedural methods".
To say it is Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, on the sidelines of the presentation of the Terna Development Plan 2025-2034.
As of December 31, 2024, there are 348 GW of connection requests for renewable plants (of which 152 GW of solar, 110 GW of on-shore wind and 86 GW of off-shore wind) and 277 GW for storage systems. 28 February 2025, Connection requests for renewable plants are equal to approximately 350 GW, While the Connection requests for storage are equal to 269 GWTerna explains this when presenting the 2025 development plan for the national electricity transmission grid.
