Value creation through innovation: Renewable energy community

Innovation has become in recent years a tool to promote and allow the creation of value, that is, the ability of a company or a company to generate utility, wealth, and growth. In this chapter, the contribution of innovation in decarbonization and in combating the climate crisis is illustrated, paying particular attention to the role of renewable energy communities. They are classified as a means capable of guaranteeing environmentally friendly wealth that aims not only at maximizing profit but also at creating economically sustainable models. Currently, digitalization allows a connection to nodes, peer to peer, while initially, the model was based on one-to-many transmissions, which did not allow the decentralization that are the basis of renewable energy communities; they also have a strong social impact, aiming to increase the production and consumption of energy by renewable sources, with the aim of achieving high levels of energy efficiency within society.