ISLETS
Innovative Support for citizen-led Local Energy Transition
Funding: LIFE - CET-2022
Period: October 2023 – September 2026
Total project budget: 1.504.720,67
Total budget CNR IIA:226.808,97
Scientific Director: Francesca Battistelli
Management Manager: Francesca Battistelli

Abstract of the project

The smaller islands suffer a strong impact from climate change. Due to their insularity and small size, small islands present specific barriers to the energy transition that can only be overcome through specific solutions. Renewable energy communities (CER), as introduced by the 2001 Directive 2018, can in this sense be an important tool that can produce a significant impact on the smaller islands.
The partnership, made up of organizations expert in the energy transition and bodies that have been working with and for the smaller islands of the Mediterranean basin for years, involves three pilot islands in Greece, Italy and Croatia in the design of a model applicable to small islands, to support the authorities local authorities to cooperate with citizen-led initiatives.

In the ISLET project, in addition to coordination work, the CNR-IIA supports the pilot island in Italy from a technical, legal and social point of view, helping to implement renewable energy communities and evaluate their contribution to decarbonization.
The CNR-IIA will also be responsible as leader of the networking activities with the European islands for the transfer of the project results
The project - lasting three years - aims to improve the ability of municipalities to create an environment conducive to the creation of Renewable Energy Communities (CER) thanks to new forms of collective energy production and addresses particular technical and non-technical barriers which are present on the smaller islands.
National Research Council – Institute on Air Pollution CNR-IIA (ITA)

LEGAMBIENTE NAZIONALE APS ETS ASSOCIATIVE NETWORK (Legamb)(ITA)

ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS - RESEARCH CENTER (AUEB) (Greece)

POKRET OTOKA – ILSAND MOVEMENT(IM)(Croatia)

SAMSØ ENERGIAKADEMI FORENING (SE) (Denmark)

DIKTYO AEIFORIKON NISON TOY AIGAIOUAE (DAFNI), (Greece)

Grad Cres – Municipality of Cres (MoC) (Croatia)

Municipality of Procida (MoP), (Italy)

Dimos Astupalaias – Municipality of Astypalea (MoA) (Greece)

MALTA INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (MIEMA) (Malta)

Federation Européenne des Agencies et des Régions pour l’énergie et l’environnement (Fedarene), (Belgium)

Frances Battistelli
Francesco Petracchini
Marco Secret
Flaminia Fois
Cassandra Montiroli