GREEN ENERGY FOR A NEW EDEN
Planning an energy-sustainable future means developing solutions that reduce climate impacts and ensure fair development. 2030 is just a first goal, because the real mission in this case is to achieve zero emissions by 2050. Countries must therefore invest in renewable energy sources and change their consumption habits, but even individual citizens can do a lot with the help of technology.
The energy transition must address key issues that require innovative ideas and proposals to be accomplished, able to interpret in an interdisciplinary way the perspective offered by technological innovation and able to enter into the agendas of public decision makers and the development programmes of those acting in the energy field.
The first challenge to be faced will be energy poverty, for the design of tools that can affect its resolution. In particular, the teams will be asked to develop, with an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, ideas and proposals to:
– Identify tools to promote Renewable Energy Communities (CER) that can offer an opportunity to tackle the difficulty in accessing energy, due to excessively high costs in developed countries. At the same time consuming and managing energy in a shared way as expected by the CER allows to increase the penetration, in the energy market, of production from renewable sources.
– Improve production from renewable sources which can offer an additional tool to combat energy poverty in emerging countries, such as North Africa, where the production of energy from renewable sources can represent a substantial resource both at local level and as a commercial opportunity with Europe.
– An essential theme for the energy transition to be fully accomplished is that of energy storage. The lack of decisive technological solutions, new management models and tools for social involvement require a strategy to reduce once and for all a bottleneck by which the energy transition id strongly conditioned.
*Today is the day! Start thinking and building your project (based on the Call of Proposals) – online uploading will be available starting from March 2024
