About
What this site is
ZeroEmission.tv is an independent record of the Italian electricity system, written for readers who want to know what is physically happening rather than what has been announced.
Every piece is filed by where the electricity comes from: geothermal, hydro, wind and solar, gas and coal, and the network that carries all of it. That is the whole organising idea. A reader who wants to understand why a coal station in Sardinia is still running can follow the argument from the plant to the cable to the island, without needing to hold a policy timetable in their head.
How we handle numbers
Anything measured is set in blue. Anything ending — a closure, a phase-out, a plant on a date — is set in red. Where a figure is unpublished or genuinely disputed, the column stays empty rather than being filled with an estimate that would then be quoted back at us.
Targets are reported, not endorsed
Closure programmes and capacity targets appear here as stated intentions, attributed to whoever stated them. The site takes no position on whether they will be met. What it does take a position on is arithmetic: if a station cannot close until a cable is energised, that is a fact about the cable, and it belongs in the piece.
Maps
Every map on this site is drawn from real coordinates. Nothing is sketched by eye, and no map appears unless the geometry behind it is real.
Who writes it
A small staff of five, with backgrounds in power engineering, energy economics and reporting. Bylines are on every piece. Corrections are welcome and are made in the open — write to us on the contact page.