‘From villages to energy communities’, a project by Pietracatella at Key Energy
From the villages and from the experimentation of the energy communities comes the answer to reconcile the diffusion of renewables and the protection of restricted landscapes:
it is one of the challenges that the municipalities of the BeComE pilots are posing, the project by Legambiente, Kyoto Club and Azzero CO2 to make Most beautiful villages in Italy the small Italian municipalities protagonists of the energy transition and find new ways to reconcile beauty and renewables. The indispensable opportunity is represented by the 2.2 billion euros that the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) allocates to Municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants to set up Renewable Energy Communities (CERs): encouraging their participatory construction in the territories is the objective of the initiative which was presented on 24 March in the afternoon, at 2.00 pm, at Key Energy in Rimini. Alongside Legambiene and the Kyoto Club, the event was attended by experts who listened to the pilot municipalities of Castelmezzano, Serra de Conti, Amandola, Pietracatella, Tramonti di Sotto and Montegridolfo, engaged in the challenge of building a public traction energy community at the service of the territory. While waiting for the CER to be established in the village, community workshops and in-depth study and verification courses will be facilitated by Azzero CO2.
“A challenge – declared the Mayor – which intends to reconcile energy transition and protection of the urban landscape, through the construction of photovoltaic production plants at the service of the CER to reduce bills and consumption and significantly move towards the ecological transition expected by Europe”.
“That of the energy communities is a revolution which, thanks to the PNRR, invests the small Municipalities as protagonists, offering them – explains the general manager of Legambiente, Giorgio Zampetti. the opportunity to make a leap forward in environmental sustainability, but also in terms of community cohesion and innovative social practices”.
“It is an intelligent choice to allocate resources to develop renewable energy communities in small Italian municipalities – declares Francesco Ferrante, vice president of the Kyoto Club – Now we need to accompany them in their development by looking for the best grounding paths in the effective use of resources”
Energy communities: the possible revolution. The CERs, introduced in Italy in 2020 with the art. 41 bis of the Milleproroghe decree, finally make the community exchange of renewable energy possible, allowing citizens, administrations, small businesses and local realities to become protagonists of the energy revolution, distributing environmental, economic and social advantages on the territories: from the reduction of climate-changing emissions to the reduction of costs in the bill, up to the fight against energy poverty.
