Energy communities, energy cooperatives, energy clusters

• LD 162/19
• 318/2020 / R / eel
• MD 16/09/2020

End users, consumers of electricity, can join forces to produce locally, through renewable sources, the electricity necessary for their need.
The "shared" electricity (equal to the minimum, on an hourly basis, between the electricity fed into the grid by the production plants and the electricity taken from the consumers who are relevant for the configuration) benefits from an economic contribution recognized by the GSE following access to the enhancement and incentive service.

Shareholders or members of communities that are natural persons, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), territorial bodies or local authorities, including municipal administrations.

A renewable energy community is a legal entity that is based on open and voluntary participation, is self-contained and is effectively controlled by shareholders or members who are located in the vicinity of production facilities owned by the renewable energy community. Shareholders or members are natural persons, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), territorial bodies or local authorities, including municipal administrations, provided that, for private companies, participation in the renewable energy community does not constitute commercial and/or main industrial activity. The primary objective of energy communities must be to provide community-wide environmental, economic or social benefits to its shareholders or members or near by locals rather than financial profits.

Tariffs for energy communities for the next 20 years are defined as follows:
• a single fee, identified as the sum of the transmission tariff for low voltage users and the higher value of the variable component of the distribution tariff for other low voltage users. In the case of groups of renewable energy prosumers who act collectively an additional contribution is envisaged due to the avoided grid losses (variable according to the voltage level and the Hourly Zonal price of electricity);
• a premium rate for selling excess energy equals to €110 / MWh for energy communities (more than one building)

Energy communities can access Net-Metering (scambio sul posto) benefit and the Tax regulation mechanism (Superbonus 110%).

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