Le energy communities from today they are regulated, but not yet definitively. On the website of Ministry of the Environment the decree which facilitates the development of territorial structures for sources has been published renewable and self-consumption. In recent months, the decree had also obtained the green light from the European Commission which had included it in the general plan of the green transition.
However, a provision is still missing, which must be approved by Arera and the Energy Services Manager. It should arrive by the end of February and we can only hope that it does not suffer the same fate as the decree published after inexplicable slowness.
The new provision will contain the rules operational with the methods and timing of recognition of incentives. The GSE will make portals available to communities through which it will be possible to submit requests.
The role of the GSE
The GSE will also present a simulator for the energy and economic evaluation of the initiatives. The simulator develops the project using the interactive map of the energy cabins to which the systems are connected.
“Renewable energy communities and widespread self-consumption – explained the minister Gilbert Pichetto – are two central cogs in the country's energy transition." We have to run. Why?
The decree identifies two ways to encourage the establishment of Cers: a non-repayable contribution of up to 40% of eligible costs, financed with Pnrr resources. Therefore to be completed by 2026. This is the meaning of having to run.
The contribution goes to communities whose plants are built in municipalities under five thousand inhabitants but with a limit of two gigawatts of power. The other path concerns one rate incentive on renewable energy produced and shared throughout the national territory.
Are the mayors and Italians ready? A long time has passed since we began to imagine the birth of Energy Communities. They may be disoriented.
The government has become somewhat aware of so much accumulated uncertainty, so the GSE “will launch a information campaign to make consumers aware of the benefits linked to the new mechanism". Government conclusion: move forward slowly.
