Gas Intensive

Gas Intensive is an Italian consortium company (società consortile) that acts as the collective voice of energy-intensive industrial gas consumers. It was founded in 2001 and is promoted by eight trade associations affiliated with Confindustria, Italy's main industrial employers' federation. Its shareholder base consists of 137 Italian companies that all use natural gas intensively in their production processes, making Gas Intensive potentially the single largest industrial consumer of natural gas in Italy. The consortium's core purpose is advocacy and market opening. Since its founding, Gas Intensive has worked to push for genuine liberalisation of the Italian gas market and to secure increasingly competitive supply conditions for industrial companies, both directly and indirectly. It engages in direct dialogue with legislators, regulators and technical bodies, and participates in the technical coordination committees for regulated activities. When circumstances require it, Gas Intensive has also taken action in the appropriate venues to seek sanctions against conduct that runs counter to real market opening or that harms the rights of industrial customers. Gas Intensive represents a set of heavy, gas-dependent manufacturing sectors: paper, ceramics, foundries, gypsum and lime/mortar, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and glass. Its members collectively consume billions of standard cubic metres (Smc) of gas, underscoring the consortium's weight in Italian energy policy debates. The organisation holds an annual assembly and public conference, typically in April, addressing themes such as the cost of gas and the energy transition. Recent editions include the 2025 assembly on 'Costo del gas e transizione energetica: una proposta di politica industriale per la nostra manifattura' and the 2026 assembly on 'Energia e imprese: come affrontare la crisi per salvaguardare la nostra manifattura'. Gas Intensive also submits formal position papers to parliamentary committees, for example its 2024 memorandum on the update of Italy's National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC).

Gas Intensive was founded in 2001 as a consortium company (società consortile) promoted by eight trade associations within Confindustria, Italy's principal federation of manufacturing and service companies. Its creation responded to a structural problem: Italian industrial firms in gas-intensive sectors were facing high and volatile natural gas costs and a market that was only gradually opening to competition. By pooling their weight, these companies could speak with a single voice to policymakers and regulators and pursue better supply conditions. The consortium's membership grew to 137 Italian companies, all characterised by intensive use of natural gas in their production processes. Collectively they represent potentially the largest industrial consumer of natural gas in Italy, with consumption measured in billions of standard cubic metres (Smc). The represented sectors are paper, ceramics, foundries, gypsum and lime/mortar, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and glass — industries where energy is a decisive component of production cost and international competitiveness. From its founding year onward, Gas Intensive's action has been directed at pursuing a real opening of the Italian gas market and at securing increasingly competitive supplies for industrial companies, both directly and indirectly. The consortium has positioned itself as a permanent interlocutor defending the interests of industrial companies. Its methods include direct dialogue with the legislator, with the regulator, and with technical bodies, up to direct participation in the technical coordination committees of regulated activities. When the situation has required it, Gas Intensive has also turned to the appropriate venues to obtain sanctions against behaviour contrary to genuine market opening or harmful to the rights of industrial customers. Over the years the consortium has combined continuous advocacy with a regular calendar of public events. It holds an annual assembly, usually accompanied by a public conference in April. The 2025 edition addressed 'Costo del gas e transizione energetica: una proposta di politica industriale per la nostra manifattura' (Gas cost and energy transition: an industrial policy proposal for our manufacturing), while the 2026 edition was announced under the theme 'Energia e imprese: come affrontare la crisi per salvaguardare la nostra manifattura' (Energy and enterprises: how to face the crisis to safeguard our manufacturing). These events bring together institutional representatives and member companies. Gas Intensive also engages directly in the legislative process. On 17 April 2024, at the written request of the joint VIII (Environment) and X (Productive Activities, Commerce and Tourism) Committees of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, it transmitted a memorandum on the update of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC, Doc. XXVII, n. 12). This is an example of its role as a technical and political stakeholder in Italian energy and climate policy. As of the available evidence, Gas Intensive remains active, headquartered in Italy, and structured as a private consortium owned by its member companies rather than listed on any stock exchange.

• 2026

  Scheduled annual assembly on energy and enterprises facing the crisis.

• 2025

  Held annual assembly and public event on gas cost and energy transition.

• 2024

  Submitted a memorandum on the PNIEC update to the joint VIII and X Committees of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

• 2001

  Gas Intensive founded as a consortium company promoted by eight Confindustria trade associations.

A Confindustria-backed consortium acting as the collective voice and negotiating platform for Italy's most gas-intensive industrial sectors.

• Collective representation of industrial gas consumers

  Gas Intensive represents the interests of 137 member companies that intensively use natural gas, acting as their voice with institutions and regulators.

• Advocacy for gas market liberalisation

  Since 2001 the consortium has pursued a real opening of the Italian gas market and more competitive supplies for industrial companies.

• Position papers and parliamentary memoranda

  Formal submissions to legislative and regulatory bodies, such as the 2024 PNIEC memorandum.

• Annual assembly and public conferences

  Regular events bringing together members and institutional representatives on energy policy themes.

1. 1Gas Intensive - official website homepagegasintensive.it
2. 2Audizioni informali sulla proposta di aggiornamento del PNIEC (Doc. XXVII, n. 12) - Memoria Gas Intensivegasintensive.it
3. 3Assemblea annuale 2025 (15 aprile) - Costo del gas e transizione energeticagasintensive.it
4. 4Gas Intensive - Wikidatawikidata.org