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Status and Evolution of the Community Energy Sector in Italy

Candelise, Chiara, Ruggieri, Gianluca·2020·Energies
DOI 10.3390/en13081888
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Community energy (CE) initiatives have been progressively spreading across Europe and are increasingly proposed as innovative and alternative approaches to guarantee higher citizen participation in the transition toward cleaner energy systems. This paper focuses the attention on Italy, a Southern European country characterized by relatively low CE sector development. It fills a gap in the literature by eliciting and presenting novel and comprehensive evidence on recent Italian CE sector developments. Through a stepwise approach it systematically maps and reviews Italian CE initiatives, to then focus the attention on three specific case studies to further explore conditions for development as well as of success within the Italian energy system. The analysis presents an Italian CE sector still at its niche level, characterized by small initiatives largely dependent on national photovoltaics (PV) policy support. It also points out how only larger initiatives, able to operate at national scale, developing multiple projects and differentiating their activities have managed to continue growing at the time of discontinuity of policy support and contraction of the national renewable energy market. Recent EU and national legislative development might support revived development of CE initiatives in Italy.

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Figure 1 Astepwise approach to investigate Italian community energy (CE) sector.
Figure 1 Astepwise approach to investigate Italian community energy (CE) sector.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 2 Dynamics of creation: top down versus bottom up approach and proponents.
Figure 2 Dynamics of creation: top down versus bottom up approach and proponents.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 3 Renewable cumulative installed capacity in Italy (MW), 2001-2018 (data collected from reports by the Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE)) [48-52].
Figure 3 Renewable cumulative installed capacity in Italy (MW), 2001-2018 (data collected from reports by the Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE)) [48-52].CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 4 Timing of renewable energy plants development across CE initiatives.
Figure 4 Timing of renewable energy plants development across CE initiatives.CC-BY · From the PDF

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Authors
Candelise, C., & Ruggieri, G.
Affiliations
  • GREEN, the Centre for Research in Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks, Bocconi University, 20136 Milan, Italy
  • Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy
ORCID
Ruggieri, Gianluca
Venue
Energies
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-04-13
Volume
13
Issue
8
Pages
1888
ISSN
1996-1073
DOI
10.3390/en13081888
Cited by
96
References
0
Language
en
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Funders
FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions (331081)

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