What are energy communities?
Energy communities are a tool that allows citizens, public bodies and small and medium-sized businesses to produce, but above all share, energy from systems powered by renewable sources.
How do they work and what will be the future of energy communities?
Filippo Bovera, professor of “Electrical systems for energy”, explains it to us, who also tells us how the Politecnico is moving on this front.
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