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SUPPORT SCHEMES IN CROSS-BORDER ENERGY COMMUNITIES
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Cross-border Energy Communities are an essential tool for achieving the European energy transition, as they represent widespread, inter-territorial participation in energy production and sharing. European directives recognise and promote these configurations, both in the form of Renewable Energy Communities and Energy Communities of Citizens. However, actual implementation at national level remains non-homogeneous, creating obstacles to the full operation of the model. The Italian scenario is, in this sense, paradigmatic. In fact, while allowing cross-border configurations, it limits access to economic incentives to Renewable Energy Communities and collective self-consumption schemes only, unjustifiably excluding Citizens- Energy Communities. The transposition of the directive, understood in this sense, risks creating misalignments between national legal systems, where each Member State operates discretionary choices on which models are to incentivise. Thus, the transposition of the directive risks creating misalignments between national legal systems, where each Member State operates discretionary choices on which models to incentivise. It is therefore understood the need for a European Regulation that clearly defines a wider subjective extension of the support scheme, ensuring uniformity and legal certainty for the transition instruments, also with a view to fully exploiting the energy mix. The path has been recently paved by the European Commission with the Energy Release 2.0, therefore requiring a necessary revision of the state aid legislations at a national level.
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