Abstract
EU targets for sustainable development call for strong changes in the current energy systems as well as committed protection of environmental resources. This target conflicts if a policy is not going to promote the compatible solutions to both the issues. This is the case of the additional renewable energy sources to be exploited for increasing the share in the electricity mix and in the gross final energy consumption. Solar energy is, currently, the cheapest solution in Southern European Countries, like Italy. In this paper, thanks to the availability of three open databases provided by National Institutions, the authors compared the historic trends and policy scenarios for soil consumption, electricity consumption, and renewable electricity production to check correlations. The provincial scale was chosen as resolution of the analysis. The deviations from the policy scenarios was then addressed to identify the demand for policy recommendations and pathways to promote in order to achieve the target for renewable electricity share as well as the reduction in soli consumption trend in 2030. The role of renewables integrated in the existing contexts, such as building integrated photovoltaics, is considered a key driver for solving this issue.
Highlights
A transition towards more sustainable energy is the pathway identified by the EuropeanCommission for a modern, prosperous and climate neutral continent [1]
A geographical subdivision based on homogeneous energy characteristics was carried out in many energy planning researches on specific areas [38], usually recalling administrative boundaries at the regional [39] or municipal level [40]
It is worth mentioning that in this study, reference was made only to PV systems to obtain an additional Renewable Energy Sources (RES) electricity production compared to the current production, not considering the potential of other RES present on the Italian territory: wind energy first, and bioenergy, hydroelectric and geothermal
Summary
A transition towards more sustainable energy is the pathway identified by the EuropeanCommission for a modern, prosperous and climate neutral continent [1]. Current EU policy is the 2030 Roadmap that aims at 32.5% of energy efficiency and at 32% of RES share on final energy consumption by 2030, calling for challenging energy and climate plans by each. The majority of fuel supply is fossil, with the perspective on including different forthcoming renewable alternatives at different scales [5]. Referring to the electricity sector, more than half of the energy supply is foreseen to be provided by RES. This strong variation causes policy implications in EU and historical data and time-series [8] play a key role for highlighting the already occurred changes in economics [9] since the first EU Directive in 2001 [10]
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