The Draghi Decree prescribes in paragraph 7 of Article 20: « Areas not included among the suitable areas cannot be declared unsuitable for the installation of renewable energy production plants, in the context of territorial planning or in the context of individual proceedings, solely by reason of their failure to be included among the list of suitable areas ».
More than a legislative dictate, it seems like a puzzle destined to strangle irremediably even the most refined and complicated scholars of the Italian language. And yet, the final concept is of a disarming synthesis: identify the suitable areas, but do not forget that even the "unsuitable" ones are to be considered suitable.
But then: what is the point of pretending to draw the map of suitable areas, as regulated by the other legislative "masterpiece" of the State, the Fratin decree, signed and endorsed by the President of the Region last June, even giving the agreement of the Sardinian Region? Nothing, precisely. This is, in fact, the first obvious flaw in the Bill just hastily passed by the Regional Council last Wednesday. The objective, made explicit in the same legislative text, (paragraph 11 article 3: «the regional law of 3 July 2024, n. 5, is repealed»), is to avoid the severe judgment of the Constitutional Court on the useless and damaging moratorium, which turned out, in the end, to only serve to give more time to speculators and lobbies to complete authorizations and administrative procedures.
The first black hole, a real crater of contradictions and ambiguities , is carved in the first article of the Bill passed by the regional executive: «Provisions for the identification of areas and surfaces suitable and unsuitable for the installation of renewable energy plants». In short, a real gimmick to propose an immense "mass distraction", functional to stir up discussion about which areas would be suitable, forgetting, or worse pretending, that the Draghi decree, instead, puts «suitable areas» and «unsuitable» on the same level, differentiating if anything the procedure: super accelerated for those deemed suitable and ordinary for all the others. Margin note: the vast majority of projects already presented in Sardinia have abundantly exceeded the terms and times of the same ordinary procedures.
And while the regulatory instruments proposed so far by the Regional Council do not seem, therefore, capable of stemming the wind and photovoltaic onslaught, there is alarm for the disposal of blades and panels: on the Island there are no specialized companies for storage, even less for the disposal of lithium batteries. Thousands of old wind turbines are stored in uncultivated fields, perhaps underground, with doubts about the regularity of the operation itself. Or in authorized areas, where the turbines from many Sardinian wind farms have ended up.