The EU Energy Projects Podcast: Communities in urban energy islands with Project RENergetic

The RENergetic project was conceived to demonstrate the viability of so-called urban energy islands and aims to empower renewable energy communities to inhabit these energy islands.

Energy communities are playing a growing role in Europe's energy transition and in this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast we explore how the RENergetic project aims to fuel the involvement of local communities in processes traditionally hidden from them, such as heat supply.

Amongst RENergetic's goals is to demonstrate the improvement of efficiency and energy autarky. It also focuses community involvement, and the socio-economic viability of three very different urban energy islands in Belgium, Poland and Italy.

Co-host Ross Hastie was part of the Enlit on the Road team that travelled to Milan to speak with Roberto de Lotto, who is a Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Pavia and leads one of the RENergetic project work packages in Segrate, a Municipality in Milan.

We explore the project’s transdisciplinary approach to achieve their goals and how their learnings can be exported.  

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Enlit On The Road – Italy
EU-funded energy projects
Energy communities

The Segrate Pilot's goals within the RENergetic project

The overall Pilot 3 focuses on testable and viable solutions searching for both AI enhanced energy island efficiency, energy waste containment and autarky equipped with replicable social/organisational capacity to fit real municipality contexts.