Urban Energy Planning for Small Municipalities

The acquisition of a method of approach to energy planning for housing in a small town appears to be the tool that awards to the variable energy a 'strategic' peculiarity for the programming of the city. This testing instrument propose a new work organization energy planning at three levels: the first phase of analysis, including urban analysis, technical and energetic analysis of construction and size and power analysis. Urban analysis is a sharp classification of the building for the construction typology and volumetric order. The building's energy performance are estimated through research of the materials used for the external covering’s achievement of the buildings and the last type of analysis executes an energy balance about dwelling houses in the town through the comparison of the warmth dispersed from the buildings every year and the energy used. A second phase of planning, testing the limits imposed considering legislation and establishing an energy balance of building and the objectives and steps to achieve them. The results of these tests allow to get a clear picture about shortages of the area object of study, like the energetic efficiency of buildings and the lack of local energy production areas. The phase of design is constituted by “objective scenarios” of the plan that are the consumption’s reduction reached through the implementation of performs direct towards improvement of systems and sub-systems building. The tool of planning proposes a series of restructuring measures construction, along with strategies for their realization, based on a logic of rewarding suggested by the Italian legislation which have taken in the European Community Directive. It is also proposed the revision of urban and building communal regulations in force on the town object of planning to agree dispensation to urban prescriptions already existing to a reduction of heat loss and emission of carbon dioxide.