Renewable Energy Systems Application into Italian Historic City Centres: Review of Building Codes

Since the Italian landscape is dense of historic centers and considering that the residential buildings represent the main potential sector for reducing energy consumptions, the application of renewable energies into these specific areas becomes an important issue. The use of such systems in these contexts is often prevented by the lack of specific local legislative references. Therefore, this paper analyzes existing regulations in order to provide background material for developing criteria useful to integrate renewable energies into historic city centers. It has been developed in the framework of the IEA-SHC Task 51 Solar Energy in Urban Planning (http:// task51.iea-shc.org).