In the first three months of 2026, Italy generated 43.6% of its total electricity from renewable sources, slightly below than the European Union average (45.5%) and ranked sixteenth among member countries. According to Eurostat, renewables include hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal, maritime energy (tides and currents), environmental heat recovered via heat pumps (only if used for heating), biofuels, and the biodegradable percentage of municipal garbage. The European landscape is diverse: countries that generate three-quarters of their electricity from renewable sources are in stark contrast to those that have extremely low renewable energy percentages (Slovakia, Malta, and the Czech Republic are all below 20%). While Denmark and Lithuania rely largely on wind power (90% and 76%, respectively), Portugal's 83% is powered by hydropower. In Italy, where natural gas alone covers a large share of national energy demand and is almost entirely imported, renewable production is led by photovoltaic energy, which has been growing in recent years.