Social acceptance and, to a lesser extent, the aesthetic impact of renewable energy integration in the city are topics scarcely considered in the literature but that have attracted growing interest in recent years. Innovative Europeanfunded projects, therefore, should start to consider these concepts. This paper provides, for the first time, a review of European projects carried out with the aim of identifying those with real implementation of renewable energies and energy storage systems in existing urban environments and their relationship with aesthetic perception. The search focused on the five most relevant programs related to renewable energies and climate change mitigation, including almost 14000 projects. The analysis of the results suggests low involvement in the real deployment of renewable energies on an urban scale but a trend for growth of potential projects since 2013. The study covered a wide range of technologies, with the most implemented being photovoltaic systems and lithium batteries. The discussion of the results considered their evolution over time, the political and geographical framework, and aesthetic aspects. The authors recommend that technological change should be associated with social change and consider technologies as basic products and core constituents of work and daily life.