Experimental path of renewable energy communities in Sicliy: Fondazione di Comunità di Messina and Solidarity&Energy ESCO.

In the recent years, some experimental forms of housing have developed in Italy, which also take on the features of real energy communities. These initiatives have been planned and implemented also according to different paths of energy renewable sharing. Their primary aim is to implement new forms of shared housing but also to adopt renewable generation systems and share both energy production and consumption. We focus on an interesting case study placed in Messina (Sicily): this is a social cohousing implemented by the Fondazione di Comunità di Messina (Community Foundation of Messina) that involves people who live in socio-economic and health difficulties. Through the ESCO Solidarity & Energy, the Fondazione has designed and applied energy systems to allow the tenants to become prosumers and prosumagers. This is an experimental path to develop some integrated micro-systems of renewable energy communities and related energy policies aimed to create new models of positive energy districts (PED).