Vincenzo d'Elia, a Sicilian from Palermo, has never been there in Piazza Deffenu in Cagliari. Those four entrance steps of the Cagliari Harbor Master's Office jumped them with pec and mail shots. The request is detailed: "Obtaining the state concession of the maritime state-owned areas and the stretches of water involved in the construction of the plant". The IT attachment is heavy, like the impact of that new wind attack on the Sulcis sea marked by maps and projects, relationships and promises of employment for all. The signature on the deeds is accompanied by a lot of office: president of Seawind Italia srl. To land in Sardinia, on one of the most exclusive coasts of the island, the new lords of the wind not only do not knock, but completely ignore the door of the institutions.

Aeolian malgrazia

The malgrace of the aeolian instance is entirely enclosed in an eloquent gesture: a postal courier will send the paper projects to the state office of the Capitaneria. For the rest, the pleasantries are reduced to nothing, let alone the comparison with municipalities and citizens. The way to the pass was indicated without half measures by the former Ministry of the Environment, now transformed into ecological transition and wind occupation of the Sardinian sea. A process that the shareholders of the unknown wind company follow with the rigor of those who feel their backs covered. They know that they have no time to waste with the opposition already expressed without half measures by Mayors and local communities on the project of the wind competitors, those of the Ichnusa Wind, who a year and a half ago presented the first assault on the Sulcis sea with 42 cyclopean blades to be placed north of Carloforte and south of Porto Flavia, on the Iglesiente coast of Masua.

The doubling

The new messiahs of the Sardinian wind were not scrupulous, the assault, in fact, doubles. With the new invasion plan presented in recent days at the Port Authority of Cagliari, the two smaller islands of Sulcis, San Pietro and Sant'Antioco, are surrounded by cyclopean wind turbines to be placed in the open sea, right next to the Island of Bull. Not a few shovels, but a real forest divided into two large areas by the sea. The first directly behind the Isola del Toro from which the project takes its name. A devastating impact with the first 24 blades, 245 meters high for a power of 12.2 megawatts each, placed in the shape of a barrage right in front of the canal between Calasetta and Carloforte and the second 24 a little further west to reinforce the great wall of wind to sea. A planned settlement with the impetuousness of a real military occupation of the Sardinian sea, as if the new wind prophets ignored the peculiarities of the Sardinian coast.

The tuna route

No mention of the tuna routes, ignoring the great environmental values of those coasts. An immense stretch of sea that the lords of the wind would like to occupy without being hit, ignoring the opinions of municipalities and populations, operators of the sea and fishing. The new project marked by the steps indicated by the Ministry of Infrastructures, on the recommendation of that of the Ecological Transition, has no half measures: the size of the occupied sea area, as can be seen from the maps we reproduce, is equal to the surface of the two islands. An unprecedented occupation of the sea that ends up equating the Sardinian coast with that of northern Europe, with a substantial difference, those stretches of sea, cold and without tourist attraction, have no usability, nor for pleasure boating. even less for the development of economic activities related to tourism.

Six concessions

What the Port Authority of Cagliari is recording these days is a real assault on the coasts of southern Sardinia, with as many as six offshore wind farm projects already submitted with a request for the concession of those stretches of water. The chessboard is, as for the others, moved from Rome, with the aim of transforming the island into a real energy colony where to throw these wind farms to be used to power the electricity grids of the "Continent". It is all too evident that the wind energy produced by those wind turbines, if they ever manage to place them in the middle of the sea, nothing will remain in Sardinia.

Island of Toro

Even this umpteenth descent of floating wind turbines to be placed in front of the Isola del Toro, a stone's throw from the most famous beaches of Sant'Antioco, is part of the perverse logic of the submarine cable-leash, the Tyrrhenian Link, which Terna wants to create to connect Sardinia with Sicily and Campania. An electrical connection worth 3.7 billion euros that will only be used to snatch the renewable energy produced by the wind and the sun from the island, leaving the island at the mercy of that cable for any electrical assistance in the event of a blackout. Sardinia, in fact, will no longer have any energy autonomy, with the plants closed and without methane, and will have to hope for the bare minimum, to avoid the darkness, provided by that electric cable.

Shovels to close

The closure, scheduled for 2025, of the two plants of Portovesme and Porto Torres, will represent, in fact, Sardinia's total dependence on electricity, ignoring that elementary rule of energy security to be guaranteed "on site" for an island region. This umpteenth project is added to another wind power plan presented in that area, just north of the latter, close to the Iglesiente coast, between Carloforte and Masua, in front of Porto Flavia, on the splendid coast of the Pan di Sugar. The Ichnusa Wind Power plan, presented to the Ministry of the Environment in June 2020, provided for 42 blades for 504 megawatts of electrical power. The Seawind assault, on the other hand, is divided into two blocks of 292.8 megawatts each for a total of 585.6 megawatts, practically the same electrical power generated by the Portovesme coal plant. Adding the two offshore wind farms, that of Ichnusa and Seawind, we would arrive at 1,089 megawatts, or two thirds of the energy produced by Sardinian power plants. Too bad that the energy produced by wind turbines is neither accumulable nor programmable.

No guarantee

This is energy that certainly cannot guarantee the electrical efficiency necessary for a serious and autonomous production and industrial system, and all the more will it be able to power essential services such as those indispensable for an island region like Sardinia. The electric "desertification" plan put in place by the Government therefore goes ahead without obstacles. With the imminent publication in the Official Gazette, both European and state, and in the Official Bulletin of the Region, these new concession requests will officially open the final phase for the presentation of observations and objections to the wind invasion. Up to now, none of the institutions involved have been seen at the Port Authority, despite the fact that the deadlines for some of the projects already presented are about to expire.

2,500 euros of capital

There remains an element that contrasts not a little with the grandeur of the project presented: the Seawind Italia company has a paid-up capital, according to the documents in our possession, of just 2,500 euros. A little bit to aspire to build similar billionaire wind farms. With a limited liability company and with a social nest egg of that size it should also be forbidden to mortgage a piece of beach, let alone a stretch of sea as large as the islands of Carloforte and Sant'Antioco put together. In any serious country, guarantees should be presented and not petty ones. Behind the scenes of this wind enterprise in the Sardinian sea, however, we can glimpse the Seawind Ocean Technology Holding, a company fiscally positioned in no less than Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Another element, however, undermines the credibility of the procedures that the State is pursuing: at the Chamber of Commerce of Cagliari the company that presented this plan is "inactive". The Government, however, with the latest energy decree, with the excuse of war, has decided to further increase the incentives for wind turbines at sea. An avalanche of public money, even for inactive companies. The citizens pay a lot.

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