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THE RENEWABLE ENERGY COMMUNITY:

ENERGY

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is

SHARING

A Renewable Energy Community is an aggregation of producers and consumers (citizens, SMEs, artisans, local and territorial bodies) located under the same primary electrical substation, with the aim of sharing the energy produced by the plants within the community itself. The community must be a legal entity (association, cooperative, participatory foundation, consortium, etc.) without a predominant profit motive, must provide environmental, economic, and social benefits to its members and/or to the local areas in which it operates, and must ensure the right to participate in governance to all components. The energy produced by the community members, through the involvement of citizens, commercial activities, and local enterprises, public entities, religious institutions, is shared and remunerated through an economic contribution recognized by the GSE following access to the incentive service. This means that both producers and final customers can now join together to produce, at a geolocated level through renewable sources, the electric energy needed for their requirements, by “sharing” it.

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Members of the CER are directly involved in decisions about the use and consumption of energy, contributing to shaping the energy future of the community itself.

CERs promote models of inclusion and collaboration that generate tangible benefits for the territory and its inhabitants, increasing consumer awareness of the importance of renewable resources. This aims at promoting virtuous behaviors, aimed at combating energy poverty, to create a more aware and responsible society towards the territory and the environment.

CER DECREE, AN IMPORTANT STEP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ENERGY FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY

Among the possible perspectives promoted in the context of the ecological and energy transition, Renewable Energy Communities (CER) find space. Finally, a fundamental step forward has been taken for the start-up in Italy of Renewable Energy Communities, as well as all other “Self-Consumption Configurations for Sharing Renewable Energy” (CACER).

On January 24, 2024, the Ministry of Environment and Energy Transition (MASE) published the CER decree (D.M. December 7, 2023, n. 414) starting a process of promotion and expansion of renewable energy communities and distributed self-consumption systems in the country aiming at increasing renewable energies, strengthening energy security, and getting closer to climate goals. The decree provides for incentives of 5.7 billion, of which 2.2 are financed with the PNRR. The decree identifies two key approaches to promoting the development of CERs in Italy.

Firstly, a non-repayable contribution of up to 40% of eligible costs is established, financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) aimed at communities whose plants are built in municipalities with a population under 5,000 inhabitants; this funding will support the development of 2 gigawatts total of renewable energy capacity. Secondly, an incentive tariff on renewable energy produced and shared within CERs across the national territory is introduced. It is emphasized that both benefits are cumulative and overall this measure aims at the development of 5 gigawatts of renewable energy production plants.

ENERGY COMMUNITIES – THE SERVICES OFFERED BY ROMEO GROUP FOTOVOLTAICA

Commercial and organizational development of the CER:
  1. Creation of a feasibility study to enhance the potential of the municipal territory, which will include:
    • the phases of development of the CER operational model;
    • the identification of intervention areas (public and/or private) for the realization of new production plants to serve the CER being established;
    • the proposal for the legal configuration of the CER;
    • guidelines for drafting the founding act and statute;
    • methods for identifying the CER Representative.
  2. Assistance in establishing the CER and admission to the GSE incentive system:
    • support for promotional activities in the territory;
    • assistance in drafting contractual documentation to regulate relationships among community members (statute, regulations, etc.);
    • assistance for requesting access to GSE incentives until accreditation, including relations with competent authorities.
  3. Operational phase:
    • Design and construction of production plants;
    • Identification and management of the CER’s financial needs;
    • Multi-year community management to support relationships with the GSE;
    • Energy monitoring and support for the distribution of the community’s internal value;
    • Management and maintenance of photovoltaic plants.

Energy communities

we have collaborated with

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Clean electricity

In Italy it is possible to create Energy Communities and we help territories to create communities that produce clean electricity for self-consumption.

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From renewable sources

An Energy Community allows citizens, associations and companies to set up facilities for the production of energy from renewable sources (photovoltaics) and to consume it themselves.

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The benefits of energy communities

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Coffee Break de La7 si occupa della Comunità Energetica che abbiamo realizzato ad Amendolara (CS)

ENERGY COMMUNITIES

Green communities looking to the future

The number of local communities that decide to rely on photovoltaics and create Energy Communities is growing. Romeo Group Fotovoltaica Srl offers its know-how to these realities. Our company is a pioneer of photovoltaics in Calabria and offers over thirty years of experience in the sector at the service of people, communities and environmental sustainability.

LEGAL ENTITY

Energy Communities are a ‘legal entity’ based on open and voluntary participation. They are controlled by actors close to the production facilities.

CONTROLLED BY SHAREHOLDERS OR MEMBERS

Shareholders or members of Energy Communities are individuals, SMEs or local authorities (typically municipalities).

ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL BENEFITS

The objective of Energy Communities is to provide environmental, economic or social benefits at community level to members or shareholders.

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