The state blitz has the sign of a six-legged dog on the sea of South Sardinia. The operation started last Wednesday afternoon when Eni officially communicated to the stock exchanges that it intends to invade the Sulcis coast with wind turbines 280 meters high. The body of water in front of the Pan di Zucchero, in the hamlet of Nebida and Masua, in front of Porto Flavia, close to Carloforte and Portoscuso, is under attack by the oil state body. Not just an offshore wind farm, but a real invasion devised in the silence of the wind business which this time has an absolute protagonist: the State.
The giants of state
In fact, the announcement is made by GreenIT, the company that brings together Eni and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, or rather the investment fund of the "state bank" in relations with Qatar, China, Kuwait, and Kazakhstan . With the two state giants, however, there is also the Danish Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, an investment fund located in the capital of Denmark. The communication is all green, with the illusory statement that these 42 wind turbines in the middle of the sea almost as high as the Eiffel Tower, will even allow to increase the production of green energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 1 million tons on annual basis. In the official press release to investors, who were not too excited after the announcement, causing the Eni share to lose 0.81%, the state body even went so far as to state that those wind turbines will serve to "favor the growth of 'local and national industry'.
Nothing for the Sardinians
Too bad that there will be absolutely nothing left of that energy in Sardinia, given that Terna is preparing to create a cable-leash that will be used to transfer that electrical potential both in Sicily and Campania. In the note to the stock exchanges, Eni and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti also forget to admit that with wind energy, unstable, uncertain and non-accumulative, there will not be a single factory that will be able to march, let alone energy-intensive industries such as those of Sulcis. The story of this newly announced state landing, however, starts from afar, when on 24 July 2020, the Sardinian Union exclusively published a project presented by two strangers for the construction of an offshore wind farm to be positioned in the stretch of water in front of the Portovesme industrial area. That they were precursors sent on an advance was understood a mile away. It was difficult to think that companies, in fact anonymous, with ten thousand euros of share capital, could think of carrying out their own projects worth billions of euros in investments.
