Blogpost #2 Annotated Summary

Solar Energy Technologies in Sustainable Energy Action Plans of Italian Big Cities (B. Nastasi & U. Di Matteo, 2016) Procedia, Volume 101, November 2016, Pages 1064 – 1071 Retrieved 20 February, 2019 from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.11.136

The article explains the impact of implementing solar technologies towards three big cities in Italy with a high population density. Buildings and transports in the three Italian cities contributes the most carbon emissions. They have set to follow the guidelines created by Renewable Energy Sources (RES), who regulates urban policies, to ensure that adopting renewable energy such as implementing “wind energy appliances” in a city is suitable to its surroundings. By installing Photovoltaic (PV) to convert into solar energy to produce heat will reduce the carbon compound. With an increasing interest in solar technology nowadays, implementing it in a city will reduce carbon, manufacturing cost will be affordable, and attains sustainable energy. They will be in line with RES policies “set by European Strategy 20-20-20” goals. The article provides statistical results of the three cities in Italy to show the possibility of reducing carbon compound by implementing solar energy. However, factors affecting the results to implement solar technology in three different Italian cities is due to the building conditions, weather conditions and different sustainable targets by the local energy production.

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