30 October 2025
Authors: Matteo Caroli, Claudia Pongelli, Luca Silla
Abstract:
Elettricità Futura represents more than 700 companies within the Italian electric industry. Overall these companies employ over 40,000 people and hold more than 76,000 MW of installed and conventional electric power and about 1,150,000 km of lines. Over 70% of electricity consumed in Italy is supplied by companies affiliated to Elettricità Futura (hereafter labeled as associates). Elettricità Futura associates electric producers both from renewable and conventional sources as well as distributors and service providers. Its mission is to support the creation of an efficient electric market and to meet the challenges of the future. Indeed, de-carbonization and energy efficiency require the development of renewable sources, the full use of high efficiency generation plants, the provision of adequate services, the development of the distribution system and the electrification of the final uses of energy. Although this organization is relatively new, it has roots in the history of the development of the Italian electric industry which has been experiencing radical changes in recent years. It was founded on 27 April 2017 from the merge between Assoelettrica and Assorinnovabili. Until then these two organizations were representing two very distant worlds as Assoelettrica was joining mainly large thermal producers whereas Assorinnovabili was linking a multitude of small producers of various types of renewable energy. Due to its ability to represent the heterogeneous Italian electric industry within a unique organization, Elettricità Futura has rapidly gained a strong institutional importance in Italy. However, the path towards the integration is anything but easy and the challenge for the future is to keep this unity over time as well as fostering the changes occurring in the industry. The case is organized as follows. With the aim to track the main characteristics of the context wherein Elettricità Futura has to operate, the first part describes the transformation that the electric industry in Italy experienced in the last twenty years. In the second part the case of Elettricità Futura is outlined.
Download Case Study
Richiesta Teaching Notes
