Simone Beltramino

Improving outdoor thermal comfort of the urban spaces is one of the most important challenges that cities have to carry out in the next years. The aim of this work consists of assessing the impact of urban variables and to quantify the influence of greening on outdoor thermal comfort conditions. The work compares six neighborhoods in the city of Turin characterized by different urban forms, contexts, and green areas. External thermal comfort conditions were measured by evaluating a series of indicators with the support of the ENVI-met tool.

The energy community is defined as a “cooperative/partnership/non-profit organization of final customers (municipalities, public and private entities, citizens) aimed at achieving energy independence in order to guarantee energy security, low environment impact and affordable energy costs”. This work defines a place-based methodology for the dimensioning of energy communities, according to the requirements of the first Italian law on energy communities issued by the Piedmont Region.

Energy resilience can be reached with a secure, sustainable, competitive, and affordable system. ...In order to achieve energy resilience in the urban environment, urban-scale energy models play a key role in supporting the promotion and identification of effective energy-efficient and low-carbon policies pertaining to buildings.

The energy community is defined as a “cooperative/partnership/non-profit organization of final cu...stomers (municipalities, public and private entities, citizens) aimed at achieving energy independence in order to guarantee energy security, low environment impact and affordable energy costs”.

Energy Communities (EC) are intended as legal entities that can ensure environmental, economic, a...nd social benefits for energy exchanges between its members. The Italian legislation has recently introduced incentives to Renewable Energy Communities (REC).