Positive Energy Districts and Deep Renovation actions to move beyond the 2025 EU Targets

Starting from selected results of the COST ACTION PED-EU-NET and IEA EBC Annex 83 PEDs, the article presents an overview of the European projects that, in recent years, have made it possible to evolve from the nZEB concept (applied to deep renovation interventions) toward the Positive Energy District model, redefining the spatial, functional, organizational, technological, and environmental aspects of the inter-scalar relationship between housing, building, and settlement. The ambition is to positively affect the ongoing change, developing tools for knowledge and validation of current experiences, generating new shared values of an ecological-environmental matrix, and promoting quality of life, inclusion, and social sustainability.