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Dr. Alessandro Sciullo
Department of Culture, Politics and Society, UNITO-University of Turin, 10153 Turin, Italy

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Published: 01 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Bio-waste could play a fundamental role in reaching the EU target to recycle 65% of municipal waste by 2035. The European waste policies and the Green New Deal are increasingly focusing on bio-waste enhancement, in particular within the Bioeconomy Strategy and the Circular Economy Package. Circular bioeconomy (CBE) combines these perspectives, with an increasing focus on organic flows extension and enhancement along the economic cycle. This paper analyses the potential of the CBE paradigm to improve the treatment of the organic fraction of the municipal solid waste (OFMSW), taking the Metropolitan City of Turin (MCT) as a case study. Our results indicate that the currently used OFMSW plant capacity of MCT is insufficient with respect to the need for treatment and, above all, inadequate for future demand trends. We advance an analysis of different CBE-related projects, which contribute to the creation of a feasible environment for bio-based closed loops in Turin. In particular, RePoPP (Porta Palazzo Organic Waste Project) is proposed as an instance of a systemic and circular process that could be improved by following the CBE principles. Through the use of qualitative system dynamics, we propose a decentralised alternative MSW management scenario with a micro anaerobic digestion plant at its core. A stakeholder analysis through a power-interest matrix identifies actors that are key to enabling this scenario. The sustainable pathways proposed in this paper can inspire local-level policy design and therefore contribute to the creation of new systemic food and waste policies for the city through the CBE paradigm.

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Andrea Taffuri; Alessandro Sciullo; Arnaud Diemer; Claudiu Nedelciu. Integrating Circular Bioeconomy and Urban Dynamics to Define an Innovative Management of Bio-Waste: The Study Case of Turin. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6224 .

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Andrea Taffuri, Alessandro Sciullo, Arnaud Diemer, Claudiu Nedelciu. Integrating Circular Bioeconomy and Urban Dynamics to Define an Innovative Management of Bio-Waste: The Study Case of Turin. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6224.

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Andrea Taffuri; Alessandro Sciullo; Arnaud Diemer; Claudiu Nedelciu. 2021. "Integrating Circular Bioeconomy and Urban Dynamics to Define an Innovative Management of Bio-Waste: The Study Case of Turin." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6224.

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Published: 17 April 2021 in Energies
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Energy communities (EC) are among the new actors in the energy market, playing an important role in the uptake of photovoltaics (PV) in European markets. This paper estimates their aggregate contribution to the low-carbon energy transition in terms of installed capacities for PV and evaluates their economic performance comparing with market prices. We compiled a database of PV facilities with 3672 entries for Germany and 64 entries for Italy. Our statistical analysis does not support an economic under-performance of EC. The aggregate contribution of EC currently amounts to 600–838 MWp installed capacity in Germany and 10.6 MWp installed capacity in Italy, which makes 1.2–1.7% and 0.07% of all PV installations in Germany and Italy, respectively.

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August Wierling; Jan Zeiss; Veronica Lupi; Chiara Candelise; Alessandro Sciullo; Valeria Schwanitz. The Contribution of Energy Communities to the Upscaling of Photovoltaics in Germany and Italy. Energies 2021, 14, 2258 .

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August Wierling, Jan Zeiss, Veronica Lupi, Chiara Candelise, Alessandro Sciullo, Valeria Schwanitz. The Contribution of Energy Communities to the Upscaling of Photovoltaics in Germany and Italy. Energies. 2021; 14 (8):2258.

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August Wierling; Jan Zeiss; Veronica Lupi; Chiara Candelise; Alessandro Sciullo; Valeria Schwanitz. 2021. "The Contribution of Energy Communities to the Upscaling of Photovoltaics in Germany and Italy." Energies 14, no. 8: 2258.

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Published: 04 February 2020 in Energies
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This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory to gain insights into how CAIs mobilize to bring about niche-regime change in the context of the sustainable energy transition. First, we demonstrate how energy communities, as a representation of CAIs, relate to social innovation. We then discuss how CAIs in the energy sector are understood within both sustainability transition theory and institutional dynamics theory. While these theories are adept at describing the role energy CAIs have in the energy transition, they do not yet offer much insight concerning the underlying social dimensions for the formation and upscaling of energy CAIs. Therefore, we adapt and apply a mobilization model to gain insight into the dimensions of mobilization and upscaling of CAIs in the energy sector. By doing so we show that the expanding role of CAIs in the energy sector is a function of their power acquisition through mobilization processes. We conclude with a look at future opportunities and challenges of CAIs in the energy transition.

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Jay Sterling Gregg; Sophie Nyborg; Meiken Hansen; Valeria Jana Schwanitz; August Wierling; Jan Zeiss; Sarah Delvaux; Victor Saenz; Lucia Polo-Alvarez; Chiara Candelise; Winston Gilcrease; Osman Arrobbio; Alessandro Sciullo; Dario Padovan. Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective. Energies 2020, 13, 651 .

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Jay Sterling Gregg, Sophie Nyborg, Meiken Hansen, Valeria Jana Schwanitz, August Wierling, Jan Zeiss, Sarah Delvaux, Victor Saenz, Lucia Polo-Alvarez, Chiara Candelise, Winston Gilcrease, Osman Arrobbio, Alessandro Sciullo, Dario Padovan. Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective. Energies. 2020; 13 (3):651.

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Jay Sterling Gregg; Sophie Nyborg; Meiken Hansen; Valeria Jana Schwanitz; August Wierling; Jan Zeiss; Sarah Delvaux; Victor Saenz; Lucia Polo-Alvarez; Chiara Candelise; Winston Gilcrease; Osman Arrobbio; Alessandro Sciullo; Dario Padovan. 2020. "Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective." Energies 13, no. 3: 651.