Respect for the environment and shared energy efficiency
WHAT ARE RENEWABLE ENERGY COMMUNITIES
They are the new form of promoting the production of electricity from renewable sources (wind-photovoltaic-biomass) that the member states of the European community have undertaken to implement over the next decade.
At the basis of this decision is the awareness that the previous model, based on incentives for individual initiatives of the individual citizen or single company, entails unsustainable costs for the system without guaranteeing a volume of initiatives adequate to the decarbonisation objective.
Thanks to the RED II community directive, natural persons, SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), local authorities, local authorities and municipal administrations, will be able to install or use, if existing, plants for the production of energy from renewable sources and self-consume it.
Virtual self-consumption defines a series of economic incentives guaranteed for 20 years from the date of constitution with an important economic, environmental and social return for the community itself!
Here are some summary points:
The Energy Community
Consumers and Producers of energy in the same low voltage grid can aggregate in the form of a community to share the energy produced by the plants owned by the community itself;
Plants owned by subjects other than the community may also be part of the communities as long as the plants are in the same low voltage grid and owned by the community that has them available for sharing the energy fed into the grid;
To identify the low voltage networks on which to develop communities, distributors will have to publish the extension of the networks on the site;
The community can take the form of association, third sector body, cooperative, consortium, partnership, non-profit organization;
WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS
PUBLIC STRUCTURES
Municipalities and local authorities that need to achieve significant reductions in the costs of supplies for public users or that intend to implement efficiency projects and rationalization of the equipment for services to citizens (public lighting; refueling systems for electric mobility, etc. .).
DOMESTIC AND COMMERCIAL PROSUMERS
Producers (domestic and commercial) who, in addition to obtaining savings, want to contribute to the cost of the photovoltaic unit to be installed on their roof / pavement to also obtain a certain return on the invested capital.
HOUSEHOLD AND COMMERCIAL CONSUMERS
Consumers (domestic and commercial) who intend to obtain savings, deriving from the virtual self-consumption of renewable energy produced by the Energy Community
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTORS
Local companies connected to the CER who intend to invest in the project to obtain a certain return on capital and reduce their carbon footprint
Incentives to the Energy Community
The community plants or those affiliated with the community will have an incentive that will be paid by the GSE directly to the community;
The incentive will be for one party an incentive in the strict sense that will be determined by the MISE and for another party a reimbursement of the costs avoided for the transmission of energy and grid losses;
But when it is possible to establish Renewable Energy Communities and what are the advantages
The definition of energy communities includes some "conditions without which an event cannot occur"
Production plants from renewable sources must have a total power of less than 200 kW;
The energy produced must be consumed "on site", or stored in storage systems;
The plant must be connected to the low voltage electricity grid, through the same medium / low voltage transformer substation from which the energy community also draws energy from the grid;
The low voltage line where the production plant is connected defines the geographical area of the community;
It is clear that the energy communities typically see small-sized plants engaged and mainly present in condominiums or in commercial activities.
For those who participate in the energy community, the advantages will be different:
Benefits on the tax deduction;
Obtaining the incentive on the energy injected into the electricity grid, which will be defined by the Energy Services Manager (Gse);