Heating, the map to know when you can turn it on in your municipality

Heating on, but sparingly. While it is coming the winter of the energy crisistriggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ministry for the Ecological transition published the national plan of containment of gas consumption natural. Document that contains a series of measures to diversify the sources of supply, given that in 2021 Russian gas covered the 40% of Italian needs, and above all to reduce consumption.

The reduction in consumption closely affects Italian families, who are called to review their habits regarding the use of heaters. Meanwhile, with a change to the maximum temperature, equal to 19 degrees centigrade in homes e 17 in offices and companies, in both cases with a tolerance of 2 degrees. But above all with a reduction in usage times.

The reduction of heating in the different areas of Italy

The heating will need to be turned on 8 days later than in the past and be shut down a week earlier. And it will have to run for one hour less per day. To understand what this actually means, we must refer to climatic zones. Italy is divided into six, on the basis of degree-days.

It is a unit of measurement calculated by adding the positive difference between the internal temperaturefixed by convention a 20 degrees centigradeAnd the external average every day of the year. Simplifying: it goes from zone Awhich concerns just some municipalities on the coasts of Noonwhere this value does not exceed quota 600. Up to those of the zone Fwhere the degree days are more than 3 thousand. They are basically mountain areas, where it is allowed to have the heating turned on at any time of the year. Wired has reconstructed, municipality by municipality, the reference climatic zone and built this map.

The top left legend shows the color of the climate zone. The filters at the bottom allow you to zoom in on a region or province. It should also be noted that Wired he worked on data that refer to municipalities that no longer exist, in the sense that they are fused with others. In the event that the original ones belonged to different climatic zones, the choice was that of assign the climatic zone with more restrictive prescriptions.

A cumbersome procedure, but necessary because Wired was unable to trovate data relating to the climatic zones of the municipalities in open format. To allow easier identification of the rules in force in the place where you reside, the choice was that of build this calculator.

That’s enough select the region, province and municipality of residence to know from when to whenand for how long each day, it will be possible to keep the heating on during the coming winter.