Energy hubs and districts plays a crucial role to implement the energy transition and defossilization of the society, and to empower its key components such as a hydrogen economy, the development of solar fuels and artificial leaf, the technologies for the closure of carbon cycles and the electrification of production, the realization of green ports or hydrogen valleys. Energy hubs and districts represent a relevant showcase of nanotech technologies and their modalities of integration into smart and innovative energy communities and grids.

Nanotechnologies (nanotech) provide the potential to enhance energy efficiency across all branches of renewable energy production, transformation, transport, distribution, and use, and to economically leverage renewable energy through new and optimized technological solutions. Nanotech innovations impact each part of the value-added chain in the energy sector and find in energy hubs and district the way to enlighten their crucial role providing a blueprint for industries and governments to energy transition and decarbonization. Nanotech Energy Hubs workshop will discuss relevant case examples of innovative nanotech solutions which can play a relevant role to realize new models of energy hubs and districts in Italy.