Ethan Tarragano is an engineer and urban planner, passionate about the urban energy transition. He initially studied at the French Engineering School, Centrale Nantes, where he graduated in the field of energy engineering. He had a one-year working experience in technical offices on building retrofitting and the development of renewable energy in buildings (geothermal, biomass, PV energy). Then, he carried out a Master of Science in Urban Planning and Policy Design at Politecnico di Milano, as a double degree, where he graduated in July 2025 with cum laude. He was a student of the Energy, Climate and Urban Planning Studio, where he has been working on mapping energy performance of residential buildings at the neighborhood scale as well as PV-production potential. He did his master’s thesis on the model of Solidarity Renewable Energy Community, a model of energy communities that revolves around addressing energy poverty. Furthermore, he has been maturing experiences in digital-based sustainability strategy, either for the monitoring of nature-based solutions (definition of a digital twin ontology to model phytoremediation of a contaminated area) or for the monitoring of building energy consumption (measurement of energy-saving induced by smart-meters, in the context of real estate).
Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti / Dept. of Architecture and Urban Studies – Politecnico di Milano