Community energy and energy co-operatives: the role of small-scale energy production in achieving renewable energy self-sufficiency (About Energy Communities)

Marche Region participates as a partner in the project Express - European Regions promoting energy self-sufficiency from renewable sources, funded by the INTERREG Europe program, through the Sector - Energy Sources, Waste, Quarries and Mines ecause of the specific competencies assigned to it in the field of energy sources and sustainable construction (DGR n.566/2023). 

The objectives of the EXPRESS project are:
- increase the share of renewable energy in the participating regions;
- increase energy self-sufficiency in participating regions;
- improve regional strategies to better consider the new energy sector operating environment and enable a quick transition to locally produced renewable energy for heating, electricity and transportation.

Marche Region is focusing strongly on the development of local energy communities. As part of the project's implementation activities, partners have the opportunity to exchange their experiences in energy self-sufficiency and renewable energy use. Through participation in the project, the Marche Region intends to deepen and find useful solutions to be transferred to the regional territory on the topic of Low Carbon Energy Communities and related digital services.

Program

Registration and welcome coffee

Moderator
Lorenzo Federiconi, Marche Region 

Welcome and introduction
Marche Region Representative 

The EXPRESS Project 
Timo Tahvanainen, Lead Partner, Regional Council of North Karelia

Scientific session

Self-consumption and self-sufficiency in Renewable Energy Communities: presentation of a case study
Samuele Branchetti, ENEA, TERIN-ICER-CROSS

Energy efficiency of buildings: a key factor for the success of renewable energy communities
Gianluca Coccia, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Environmental rating systems application as support to the implementation of an energy community
Massimiliano Bagagli, ITACA

Partners Experiences

Main energy community projects
Alma Pohjonen, Karelian University of Applied Sciences, Finland 

Emergence of an energy community, The example of the Croulebarbe project in Paris
Lucas Sittler, Agence Parisienne du Climat, France

Ballymacarbry Energy Community
Dewi Vliexs, South East Energy Agency, Ireland

Energy communities in Marche Region
Katiuscia Grassi, Marche Region

European Best Practice

Région Nouvelle Aquitaine Policy instrument: Call for proposals
Anaïs Cognacq, Alec Métropole bordelaise et Gironde, France

Q&A

Conclusions
Massimo Sbriscia, Marche Region

To follow, buffet lunch