Imperial College London
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DrChiaraCandelise

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Honorary Research Fellow
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6781c.candelise05 CV

 
 
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401Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Candelise:2020:10.3390/en13081888,
author = {Candelise, C and Ruggieri, G},
doi = {10.3390/en13081888},
journal = {Energies},
pages = {1--22},
title = {Status and evolution of the community energy sector in Italy},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13081888},
volume = {13},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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.
AU  - Candelise,C
AU  - Ruggieri,G
DO  - 10.3390/en13081888
EP  - 22
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1996-1073
SP  - 1
TI  - Status and evolution of the community energy sector in Italy
T2  - Energies
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13081888
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/8/1888
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78154
VL  - 13
ER  -
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