“…These variables can be grouped along five main dimensions influencing REC: socio-demographic, economic, climate, building and urban dimensions. (Hsu, 2015;Kavousian et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2020;Theodoridou et al, 2011) Floor area (Fracastoro & Serraino, 2011;Kavousian et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2020;Theodoridou et al, 2011) Building envelop (Catalina et al, 2013;Theodoridou et al, 2011;Williams & Gomez, 2016) Housing type/size (Hsu, 2015;Tso & Guan, 2014) Energy system and appliance use (Kim et al, 2020;Sepehr et al, 2018;Štreimikienė, 2014;Tso & Guan, 2014) Urbanization rate Location characteristics Settlement pattern Density and mixed use (Chen et al, 2016;Dujardin et al, 2014;Iraganaboina & Eluru, 2021) The second group of literature is mainly based on GIS approaches that create and analyse REC's spatial dimension, considering a number of variables as for instance urban density or climate zone. In this context, several studies based on spatial approaches associated with energy modelling have progressively developed in recent years, in order to help energy planning such as (Caputo et al, 2013;Caputo & Pasetti, 2017;de Santoli et al, 2019;Dujardin et al, 2014;Evola et al, 2016;Fichera et al, 2016;Groppi et al, 2018;Howard et al, 2012;Mattinen et al, 2014;Österbring et al, 2016).…”