Italians who wish to pay less for electricity will probably pester the mayors of their city in the coming months.
The push for the creation of renewable energy communities - CER - could come from the first citizens. An example is being given by Florence, where Dario Nardella is creating communities in some neighborhoods, after public consultations with citizens.
Renewable energy communities were designed to bring together families, small businesses, structures and make progress in city sustainability. They are an expression of one energy democracy participated on the side of savings and abandonment of fossil fuels. In a country that sees growing social and economic distances in many areas, which has millions of energy poor, coming together for a specific purpose also means stopping those distances. The elected leader of a community called a city therefore has the duty to promote and organize the citizens.
The government has been silent for months
It was surprising that in the press conference three days ago Giorgia Meloni has not even touched on the issues of renewable sources, climate, energy transition. In the case of these new forms of solidarity it would be easy to attribute to the right-centre a certain idiosyncrasy for the term community.
The normative and innovative principle of territorial aggregations on such a strategic issue has no space in the debate between the parties of Meloni's coalition. Ultimately there may be a cultural limit in being recognized as subjects open to corpus moderns of society, rather than defenders of unique.
The doubt is only resolved if political decisions come from the center signals encouraging and concrete. Of course, after months of silence. Meanwhile, local administrations have become crucial, claims the Energy & Strategy Group of the Polytechnic of Milan in a recent study.
Self-consumption achievable objective, if…..
There are around a hundred self-consumption projects in Italy with only 30 active communities. There are another 200 on the way who rely on photovoltaics and more. An extraordinary opportunity to not keep billions of available euros frozen but above all to put more capital and workforce into motion. The attacks on the Superbonus would find an intelligent balance in the right's ability to profit from initiatives in cities simply by not hindering them but explicitly favoring them.
Di ads politicians without thinking about the real economy, the list received is enough. Here there is a collective desire and good industrial business towards the future. But these are two objectives that the government is unable to achieve.
