Contributions from research projects on the Italian power system: Accountability of sustainable energy projects

Research projects performed by RSE for the Research on the Italian power system have a strong sustainability dimension, according to the public interest nature of the Fund. The development of methods to account for sustainability of smart grids has considered the Key Performance Indicators used in demonstration projects of the European Framework Programme. As far as smart cities are concerned a new metrics called Smartainability has been proposed and applied to the case of the site of the Milan EXPO 2015 Universal Exposition.