Comunità energetiche: l’evoluzione del quadro regolatorio europeo e italiano

Abstract ENG: Energy communities: the evolution of the European and Italian regulatory frameworks). Climate change is an issue of extreme urgency extreme urgency in global public policies in the energy field, and to combat it, the use of renewable sources in energy planning must be promoted. This paper aims to reconstructs the international and European regulatory framework on the sustainable energy sector to pursue the energy transition, focusing on the evolution of the regulatory landscape, in Europe and Italy, of the energy communities: the ERC and the CEC. Two legal models that encapsulate relevant environmental, social, energy, technological and economic profiles, rethink the energy governance system from the perspective of horizontal subsidiarity, demonstrating how climate neutrality can be achieved starting from the city and its inhabitants.