1. GOOD PRACTICE TEMPLATE
Landscape Propensity for Renewable Energy Plants
Title of the measure/initiative: Landscape Propensity for Renewable Energy Plants in the
Town of San Miniato (PI) (Degree Thesis 2009-2010)
Name of the organisation: Università degli Studi di Genova
Status of the organisation: University - Faculty of Architecture
Address: University of Genua
Contact person: Arch. Ciardelli Chiara (Supervisors Prof. Brancacci and Prof. Gibelli)
Phone: _____________________ Fax: _____________________
E-mail: chiarina81@yahoo.it
Web site : _____________________
Topic (multiple answers are possible)
x Public Sector
Private Sector
Large Industrial Buildings
x Solar Plants
District Heating
x Wind
x Biomass
x Geothermal energy
Energy saving
Energy efficiency
Energy concepts
x Other, please specify ___Territorial / Urbanistic Planning______
Stakeholders (multiple answers are possible)
Citizens
Households
Property owners
x Policymakers
x Local and regional authorities
x Energy service company (ESCO’s)
x Architects and engineers
Other, please specify ____________________________________________
2. BACKGROUND
This is a methodology useful to identify the areas more suited for the installation of renewable
energy plants within the current regulations on environmental and landscape conservation.
The specific case study in the thesis degree deals with the territory of the municipality of San
Miniato (PI) in the Tuscany Region.
OBJECTIVES
The study aims to develop new methodologies in order to take into account the energy factor
in the planning tools: the use of alternative energy sources becomes a tool for the ecological
restoration.
PROCESS
The methodology starts from the description of the landscape areas (hills, plains, riverside…)
in the territory. Then for every identified area there are the following steps:
Analysis of energy consumption (both settlements and productions)
Evaluation, by means of ecological indicators, of landscape integrity and
transformation propensity, both ongoing and potential
Assessment , trough a SWOT analysis, of the energy capability of every
territorial area identified in the case study
FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND PARTNERS
This case study has been developed within a thesis degree work at the Faculty of Architecture
of University of Genua, during the 2009-2010.
RESULTS
This work aims to give to policy makers and planners some tools to evaluate the energy
component in planning phases, in order
to avoid to mis-estimate the real capability of a territory to produce
to use the renewable sources as a real ecological compensation
to finally reach the energy neutrality
LESSONS LEARNED AND REPEATABILTY
The applied procedure uses urban planning indicators and SWOT analysis starting from these
indicators values; the real difficulty is often the data availability and the necessity to use
theoretical estimate values: but this point underlines more and more the importance of an
multidisciplinary approach starting from the assertion that the landscape is changing and that
energy is not only data but also landscape!
