Vol. 29 No. 1 (2025): BEYOND DECARBONIZATION toward a Climate Neutral urban environment
Research and Experimentation

The design of energy communities: optimising environment, time and place

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  • Chiara Scanagatta,
  • Massimiliano Condotta
Chiara Scanagatta
Dipartimento di Culture del progetto, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italia
Massimiliano Condotta
Dipartimento di Culture del progetto, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-16591

Published 2025-07-31

Keywords

  • Energy Communities,
  • Renewable Impact,
  • Environmental Integration,
  • Environmental Enhancement

How to Cite

Scanagatta, C., & Condotta, M. (2025). The design of energy communities: optimising environment, time and place. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, 29(1), 149–160. https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-16591

Copyright (c) 2025 Chiara Scanagatta, Massimiliano Condotta

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Abstract

The installation of systems from renewables leads to the modification of communities’ proximity spaces, with irreversible alterations of the natural and man-made landscape. Hence the need to develop strategies to integrate these systems into the environment, preserving the value of places according to their peculiarities and characteristics. The PANORAMA project, with its multi-criteria tool integrating different aspects (potential, cost and environmental ones), promotes the activation of energy communities that benefit from solutions designed according to their specific features. The paper focuses on the aspect of environmental integration, illustrating the strategy adopted to analytically analyse and evaluate this factor, which is by nature hard to quantify.

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