Poggio Renatico was the first municipality in Italy to implement energy transition projects by joining EGP's "Renewable Choice" initiative, which enabled citizens to contribute through a crowdfunding campaign to the construction of the new "Fondo Uccellino" (literally, “Bird Fund”) solar park.
In actual fact "Renewable Choice" allows people to take part in an online fundraiser through which they can earn income linked to a fixed annual interest rate, in addition to recovering the initial capital paid in.
With the construction of the new solar park, several projects in favor of the local community are also planned in Poggio Renatico: they include the replacement of streetlights with new energy-efficient LED technologies, the installation of Enel X charging points for electric cars, resurfacing the pavement in some road sections and visual mitigation works at the solar park with the installation of a perimeter green screen, which will be made using native plants.