Comunità energetiche e territorio, binomio indissolubile

Abstract

Energy communities and territory
The climate and energy emergency are focusing attention on Renewable Energy Communities (RECs). RECs are made up of citizens who become producers and consumers of energy (prosumers), but also small and medium-sized enterprises, territorial entities or local authorities, including municipal administrations, for the purpose of local energy distribution produced from renewable sources, bringing a series of environmental, economic and social benefits at a local level. Furthermore, RECs contribute to reducing energy poverty as a sustainable development objective and to achieving the common decarbonisation objective required by the future energy system of European Union. Therefore, the need for planning is immediate, so the article presents the consequent reflections, with particular reference to landscape planning, based on the case study of the Municipality of Corsano (Lecce, Apulia Region, Italy). From the processes of energy decentralization and localism, some perspectives emerge that converge on the energy district as a projection of the local energy community and which seem to enhance a more systemic and strategic dimension of energy planning on an urban scale.
Keywords: Urban sustainability, Energy planning, Local development, Energy Communities