Does The Butterfly Rash Come And Go

A renewable Concerto played in 45 European cities

A project funded by the European Commission to integrate renewable energy in our cities

The little play on words of the title is the exact explanation of the project of the European Commission Concerto. An initiative that aims to demonstrate the environmental, economic and social integration of renewable energy sources, in the neighborhoods of our cities.

The ways in which to prove the value of integration is obtained - by targeting - the highest level of energy independence as possible.

Participants at the moment, 45 cities in concert.

Concerto In Italy is active in Alexandria. The city of Piedmont has already risen to the headlines because environmental awarded a prize by the Ministry of Environment for the construction of a solar village, a complex of eight buildings surrounded by greenery, with adjoining pedestrian areas and rooftop solar panels installed - to develop a total capacity of 170 kWp. Through Concerto

the municipal administration, in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin and the local provincial institutions, has implemented an integrated approach to sustainability at the neighborhood level, dispensing with conventional fossil energy resources and involving stakeholders, residents and neighborhood associations interested in surgery.

The project in the city of Alexandria is called the Piano Concerto, which expired in 2011 and will include: energy audits of about 3,000 homes, the rehabilitation of 300 affordable housing energy-popular, the construction of a new eco-village, interventions social housing, the implementation of measures to green and to improve the infrastructure, adoption of measures for the social and economic revitalization.

To achieve these objectives, the administration has made significant technological choices, such as the adoption of insulating materials to reduce by about 50% less use of renewable sources - such as heat, solar and biomass tri-generation (with the simultaneous production of electricity and heat).

Concerto counts, in which it is active in 45 cities, 18 different projects and is part of the Research Framework Programme run by the Directorate General for Energy and Transport of the European Commission.

Alberto Marzetta on Green Source Magazine.