Paesaggio ed energie da fonte rinnovabile: la possibile innovazione legata alle Comunità Energetiche

The goals set by the European Commission through the EU 2030 Energy strategy require an acceleration in the use of Renewable Energy Sources. The issue is confronted - particularly in Italy - with a landscape palimpsest of great complexity, which requires regulating their installation with respect to the impacts generated on the landscape. However, the current protection mechanisms seem capable of only partially addressing the new challenges that climate change requires, as well as managing the conflicts that often emerge between different needs, hindering potential virtuous forms of integration. The creation of Renewable Energy Communities seems to be able to change the paradigm linked to renewable energy, leading to a gradual replacement of large plants installed by a few important investors with medium-sized plants linked more directly to local communities. For those who deal with the sustainability of the historical built heritage and landscape protection, the innovation introduced leads to investigating whether and how this possibility can also become an opportunity for a more effective protection of the landscape and, if landscape issues can be sufficiently taken into consideration. Inserting the formation of these communities into a program, at least on a local scale, which considers suitable and unsuitable areas for installations, positioning and design criteria that arise from the specific landscape context, can constitute a first step towards the integration of different needs that tools already in use have not been able to intercept and move towards a quality energy infrastructure project that guides the energy transition process, guaranteeing the protection of the landscape.