GSE launches the Renewable Energy Communities Showcase: over 4,800 active configurations

As of August 31, there were over 4,800 Renewable Energy Community configurations with active contracts or in the process of being finalized, with a total power of the plants of around 400 Megawatts and over 51 thousand associated connection points. These numbers make it increasingly important to provide services that facilitate meetings between the Cers and anyone interested in joining", explained the CEO of the GSE, Vinicio Moses Vigilante, on the occasion of the launch of the Showcase.

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To find out which Cers are present in a geographical area on the official website, you need to enter your POD code, click on "Search", view the Energy Communities that refer to each Conventional Area, and possibly choose the one that best meets your needs and, if available, click on "Contact the Cer".

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In short, Cers are groups of citizens, small and medium-sized businesses, local authorities or associations that come together to produce and share energy from renewable sources, especially through photovoltaic systems. Energy produced and consumed locally often also gives the right to economic incentives. It doesn't necessarily mean physically passing electricity from one house to another: the sharing is calculated virtually on the grid. Their diffusion is designed to maximize self-consumption, i.e. the consumption of electricity contextual to production, which can take place both in physical and virtual form.

Self-consumption is physical when the energy production plants are connected to consumer users, but virtual when it uses the distribution network to balance the consumption and production of energy underlying the same portion of the electricity network (but without coincidence between the point of introduction of the renewable plant into the grid and the withdrawal point).

For the creation of a Cer, we read on the GSE website, it is necessary to identify the areas where the plants powered by renewable sources can be built and the users with whom to associate and share the electricity. The Community must be legally constituted, in the form of an association, third sector body, cooperative, benefit cooperative, consortium, non-profit organization and so on: the important thing is that the Cer is equipped with its own legal autonomy through any form that guarantees its conformity with the main constituent objectives. This means that each Cer has its own deed of incorporation and its own statute.

Membership of a Cer by an energy consumer or a producer of renewable energy, the Manager always explains, can take place during the legal establishment phase of the Cer, or in a subsequent phase, according to the methods provided for in the deeds and statutes of the Communities themselves.

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