On the wind and photovoltaic front, there is a "situation of notable activism on the part of the business world, with the presentation of an enormous number of projects, for over 1000 requests under evaluation or waiting to be evaluated". Words of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, written in a defense brief filed with the TAR to justify the delay in the ruling on the request for an environmental impact assessment for the construction of a large photovoltaic plant in Villasor. The offices are under siege due to too many practices on renewables, we are unable to meet the deadlines: this is the "translation" of the position illustrated by the State Attorney's Office. It applies to Sardinia, bombarded with requests for authorizations, but the problem is also extended to other regions (almost all the planned plants are concentrated on the islands and in Puglia)

But the administrative judges are not at all accommodating with the ministerial offices: with a ruling filed this morning they order Mase to proceed within sixty days and to give a response to Tiziano Srl, a company that filed the appeal against the ministerial silence on the proceeding initiated in April 2022. The goal is to build the “Villasor” agrivoltaic plant with a power of 41.84 MWp, covering approximately 200 thousand square meters: almost 20 hectares. The lawyer chosen is Andrea Sticchi Damiani, who often deals with renewables, always in favor of companies.

The Sardinian Regional Administrative Court writes that "it is common ground in the case that the procedural deadlines have been exceeded without the proceeding administration having concluded the procedure". And it adds that "the large number of measures in progress at the competent administrations, in imposing the adoption of adequate internal organizational measures to the administrations involved, cannot redound to the detriment of the private applicant nor justify an "exceeding" of the times imposed by law". In short: the deadlines are peremptory and in the event of too many requests, if necessary, the offices are strengthened. And "in other words, a defensive proposal cannot be accepted that would entail the "de facto" non-application of the current legislation on the deadlines for concluding the procedure, which constitutes an unavoidable guarantee of certainty of relationships, as well as of effectiveness and transparency of administrative action".

So Mase has to give an answer within 60 days. He can also say no. But he has to answer.

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