Italy's natural gas consumption fell to its lowest level in more than 15 years to 61.7 bill cu m in 2024, the country's power market manager, GME said on Friday.
An overall 2.5% annual drop was mainly due to a decrease in the use of gas in power generation, while consumption by companies and households was marginally higher compared to 2023, the GME report said.
On the supply side, gas imports fell last year to 58.7 bill cu m, reaching their lowest level since 2015.
Despite a drop of nearly 9% last year in flows to Italy, Algeria remained the country's biggest gas provider supplying 21.1 bill cu m.
LNG imports fell more than 9% to nearly 15 bill cu m, ranking as the country’s second supply source. Gas coming through pipelines from Azerbaijan was third at 10.3 bill cu m.
Flows coming from Russia and other European countries via the TAG pipeline rose to 5.4 bill cu m, GME said.
