Growing sustainable behaviors in local communities through smart monitoring systems for energy efficiency: RENERGY outcomes

Abstract

EU 2020 agenda started new planning processes at territorial level connected to the challenge od sustainability goals defined at European level. Territorial administration entitled of territorial planning started to consider as a key aspect the energy planning with several implications. The paper started from the experience developed in the framework of RENERGY transnational cooperation project by the Province of Potenza and remarks the role of ICT applications for community involvement as a success factor to obtain the ambitious EU 20-20-20 targets. Conclusions regard the implementation dimension designed by the Province of Potenza in order to realize a pilot application producing open data in the field of energy performance of public and/or private interventions. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.