The "electrochemical" operation is secret. The rule is to deny all information. No projects are available. The papers are hidden, first of all, by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, transformed into a sort of mysterious "lodge" of the public administration. The goal of those who present certain projects is, in fact, to consume the hourglass of publication times in silence. Moreover, even those hundreds of landowners who will see their land expropriated without anyone having ever warned them should not know anything. To fulfill the publication of the very long list of cadastral maps and parcels, the gentlemen of "EnergyQ1Bess", an unknown company with a capital of ten thousand euros, have chosen a newspaper that nobody reads in Quartucciu. More than the logic of greater visibility, a precise concealment was chosen. Just to let the time of law pass undisturbed without anyone standing in the way of the project. On the contrary, they publish the expropriations of the areas regardless of the resounding rejections of the Municipality and the Region.

Garage & multinationals

The mysteries of this operation are contained in the papers that have ended up in our hands, in the corporate findings and even in the crossovers between the multinationals and this company with its headquarters in a sort of garage in Olbia. First of all, the project: construction of an "electrochemical energy storage" plant near the countryside of Quartucciu and Quartu, attached to the avenue of the Regional Autonomy, attached to a real residential village. The dimensions of the "electrochemical battery" are cyclopean: 180 megawatts. Suffice it to say that the largest plant in the world, built south of San Francisco in California, has 300.

Stick to the battery

In practice, given that in Sardinia they want to cancel the electricity production, the continuous one and not from the third world, in the palaces of Rome it was decided to make the island depend on "subspecies" of electrochemical batteries, effectively denying electricity production on a par. than any other Italian and European reality. Everyone understands this: it is one thing to produce continuous energy, another to depend on storage batteries, whose energy can be exhausted at any time. A power supply to the sound of batteries that denies any security in terms of efficiency and electrical power available to Sardinia, its consumption and its development potential. To impose this strategy on the island is Enel, a "subspecies" of parallel ministry of energy and the environment. They decide and impose everything, without any kind of confrontation. It is no coincidence that in one of the latest "pontificants" press releases Enel declared that it had won the beauty of 500 megawatts of new capacity destined for Sardinia at the latest auction, that of incentives. In the energy "proclamation" Enel admitted that those megawatts "will honor them exclusively through the construction of storage systems and without having to invest in new gas plants, thus taking a concrete step towards the transformation of Sardinia into Green Island". A press release that in fact confesses the true retro-thinking of Enel: "without having to invest". The goal is, in fact, that of a Sardinia with a low energy regime, a region to be kept underdeveloped, in short, without too much need for energy. In the latest announcement of incentives, the one that attributes a sea of money to those who make the "batteries", Enel, through its "Green Power", has raided. In the "Capacity market 2024 auction", called by Terna, Enel was awarded 1,100 megawatts. As if it were a prize, Enel Green Power, to please those who still believe in the Santa Claus of energy, announced that half of the capacity will be installed in Sardinia, "without resorting to new gas plants and thus taking a concrete step for the transformation of Sardinia into a green island ». No gas, therefore. Enel, in Sardinia, is planning an electrochemical "drop" of lithium, iron, zinc, vanadium and so on. In the first instance, they will focus on lithium, but they themselves admit: those batteries "have a very rapid response capacity but give a relatively limited contribution in energy and for a few hours". For this reason, the experimentation would be concentrating on substances and technologies that have very little "environmental": "flux batteries with vanadium and iron chemistry, on zinc based chemistry or on the evolution of lithium batteries with solid state electrolyte ". So far the strategy: to make Sardinia less and less capable of producing energy, more and more dependent on the energy leash of Terna and Enel. Then, however, there is the "Quartucciu Bess" project, unknown as the mysterious company that was established on September 20, 2021, with its tax office in a sort of anonymous garage on the outskirts of Olbia, in a street in dead end dedicated to Simplicio Spano. The "EnergyQ1bess srl" took just a month from its establishment to deposit a mega project to the Ministry of Ecological Transition to create a mega battery power plant in agricultural areas, in contact with an area subject to a real urban subdivision. electrochemicals of 180 megawatts, the largest ever planned in Sardinia and Italy.

Mysteries & questions

A project as mysterious as it is kept under wraps. There are so many question marks that emerge endlessly. The technical report that we publish declares the construction of the Bess, Battery Energy Storage System in the municipality of Uta. In reality, the chosen area is on the opposite side, straddling the four lanes of the new 125, coupled with the 554. Agricultural land, states the municipal urban plan. The Municipality of Quartucciu has already rejected it without appeal: "Incompatible with our territory". The Region also: "It does not comply with the urban plan in force" and "is in contrast both in terms of less consumption of the territory, and of conservation of land with agricultural potential, such as that on which the intervention falls". In practice, an impressive electrochemical storage plant is being planned on an agricultural area of thirty hectares, with many question marks on the substances to be used, when one of the prerequisites should have been to place it, possibly, in industrial areas. A project so controversial and mysterious that it raises many questions about who is really behind this operation.

The longa manus

The first clue is in the chamber deeds of the company "EnergyQ1Bess srl". The property and pledge chapter reads: "Holder's domicile: via Simplicio Spano 10, Enel Green Power - legal title: Pledge". What does Enel Green Power have to do with that building if it is owned by the heirs of one of the shareholders of the newly formed company? The second clue is in the finished projects in our hands. They are signed by engineer Stefano Floris, partner of the team that presented the "electrochemical" project. A miniaturized footnote in the project, however, is much more than a palace intrigue: "This document is property of Enel Green Power", or "this project is owned by Enel Green Power". In Quartucciu that mega electrochemical battery is a mystery. Last note: behind that plant there would be an income of over nine million euros per year, a "valorization" premium of 51,012 euros per megawatt, to be multiplied by 180. Yet another gift from the state, paid with the bills of Sardinians and more.

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