The CEI to the parishes: “Become energy communities”
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“If in each of the 25,610 parishes of our country at least one energy community were set up to produce 200 kilowatts, or more communities were born that arrive overall at that energy production, we would have made our contribution with 5.2 gigawatts of new production from sources renewable”. The appeal was launched by Monsignor Filippo Santoro, archbishop of Taranto and bishop delegate for social problems and work, justice and peace. Not a simple exhortation from him, designed to give an answer to social and economic hardship, but the project to found thousands of energy communities is seen by the Italian Episcopal Conference as one of the four “conversion paths”.
History
In Bologna the largest energy community in Italy: from the shopping center to the parish
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And the words of Monsignor Santoro, pronounced for the first time at the 49th Social Week of Italian Catholics and repeated in many meetings, leave no room for doubt: “We want all the communities of the faithful in all the Italian parishes to start a project and become energy”, reiterated the bishop, “an income-creating tool that can support the faithful, parishes, family homes, local communities, as some good practices already implemented or being implemented in the area have already demonstrated. At the same time they are an opportunity of strengthening community ties that are always cemented by sharing concrete choices for the common good”
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One of these communities is already in an advanced stage and should be built in Bologna in the Pilastro-Rovere area, a district on the northern outskirts of the city. A large project involving over 5 thousand people, called GECO (Green Energy Community). The project born thanks to the initial involvement of the Centro Agro Alimentare which also includes FICO, the large food park, owner of over 120 thousand square meters of solar panels (it had proposed to transfer part of the energy to the families of the Pillar) was ready to leave, but it suddenly stopped because in the meantime the legislation has changed. At that point, the Pillar families were not discouraged but involved the same request to the nearby parish which said yes. To begin with, they are just waiting for the implementing decrees of the new law. After having explained to the citizens of the Pillar the economic and social benefits of the energy community, no one intends to go back. Thus, now the parish will install solar panels and the energy produced with the photovoltaic system will be shared with the families of Pilastro-Roveri.
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The Manual
Monsignor Santoro, who has repeatedly recalled how in the encyclical Laudato Sì, Pope Francis invites us to progressively abandon fossil fuels, has encouraged the churches to become eco-compatible. He is so convinced that this is the right path that he has had a manual printed to be distributed in thousands of parishes from North to South, entitled “Suggestions for the start-up path of Energy Communities” which explains step by step how to get from the simple agreement between citizens and institutions and communities that share the energy produced from renewable sources.
Carbon-free parishes
“Our parishes and dioceses – explained Monsignor Santoro – must be carbon-free in their savings management choices and express the leading companies in the ability to combine economic value, dignity of work and environmental sustainability”. This is why he urged that in the canteens of the diocese attention be paid to the choice of products, using only those “capolarato free”.
A paradigm shift supported by Monsignor Santoro convinced that: “A profound change of course for a true ecological transition can no longer be postponed” reads a document released by the Italian Episcopal Conference. And addressing the ecclesial community, he urged them to organize meetings to support a reform for integral ecology: “We must be the change we want to see in the world. It does not happen only from above but the competition in our ‘conversion’ to new lifestyles. Not only as citizens. But also as a community”.
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