COMUNITÀ ENERGETICHE RINNOVABILI A PROVA DI BIODIVERSITÀ. UN MODELLO A SUPPORTO DELLA PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA NELLE AREE INTERNE

Abstract

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) represent an important tool for decarbonising urban areas and reducing energy poverty, as well as a potential lever to combat demographic desertification in inner areas. In-depth knowledge of areas unsuitable for the installation of energy plants from renewable sources is essential for orienting urban planning towards sustainable choices, which promote RECs spatial configurations that respect cultural, naturalistic, ecological, landscape and environmental resources, particularly rich in inner areas. This work focuses on the protection of biodiversity, an aspect scarcely investigated in the scientific literature on the topic of RECs in urban planning. To this end, a fast method is proposed to build the Map of Ecological Connectivity on an urban scale, starting from the data available from the early stages of the planning process. The model is applied to the municipal territory of Roccabascerana, belonging to the inner areas of Campania Region (Italy), in the context of studies and research for the formation of the Municipal Urban Plan.