The text is ready. For days the latest draft has been traveling with the "wind at its back" between the confidential emails of Palazzo Chigi and those of three Ministries: Environment, Reforms and Public Administration. The mission is written in the Pnrr reports , those that monitor the programs of the father-master of Brussels: there are too many delays on renewables, speculation is not traveling as it should and the offices of the European Commission are about to send a warning to the diplomacies of Rome.

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The great "round table" of energy speculation is impatient: it is asking for a coup to erase all resistance and achieve the "strike" of renewables without further wasting time. The decree is legislative, as per the delegation that Parliament has entrusted to the Government. There are procedures and timescales to put together, all linked to the race against time to satisfy various lobbies and fixers, state and foreign multinationals.

Facade agreement

On the one hand there is an agreement on the decree of "suitable areas", with some apparent sops that deals Sardinia one of the hardest blows of this wind-photovoltaic "history", on the other decrees of a higher legislative rank than the one signed by Pichetto Fratin, the Minister of Wind and Sun, in agreement with the Regions. The Government, on the "suitable areas" decree, had been forced, due to competition of matters, to ask for the agreement of the Regions. In that text, however, he didn't have much trouble passing some useless concessions to the Regions, he already knew from the start that for the final "coup" he would act undisturbed, with a legislative decree, without even a vote from Parliament. No sooner said than done: in these hours the technicians of Palazzo Chigi, together with those of the various ministries involved, are defining the details of yet another provision studied in every detail to "impose" impossible rules and timescales on Municipalities and Regions, introducing for the first time in the authorization regime for wind turbines and photovoltaic panels there is "silence assent".

State impositions

A real "coup" with an eloquent title: «Consolidated law on administrative regimes for the production of energy from renewable sources». The heart of the provision is all in article three, a bulldozer rule, capable of wiping away all resistance, from environmental ones, understood in the noblest meaning, to archaeological ones. An article that seems to have been written by the hand of a lobbyist on a mission to the palaces of Rome, a rule that in other times would have startled anyone with a specific accusation: private interests in official acts.

Fake public interest

The title of the law already tells the story of the "farce": "Prevailing public interest". It is not clear what the public interest is, but it is certainly understood that private business and energy speculation come first. This is not a simplistic translation, but exactly what was foreseen in the law already examined by ministerial leaders. They write: «When weighing interests, priority is given to the interventions referred to in Article 1, paragraph 1, in accordance with the principle of the prevailing public interest in the diffusion of energy from renewable sources pursuant to Directive 2018/2001/ EU, of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 December 2018" .

Abuse

In regulating the law they use exemplary clarity: absolute "priority" for the construction or operation of production plants and energy storage systems from renewable sources, for interventions to modify, strengthen, totally or partially remake the same plants, as well as for the related works and infrastructures indispensable for the construction and operation of the same plants" . A provision that allows us to clearly understand the effect: protection of the landscape, landscape restrictions or anything else that falls within the competing competences will have to give way to this "sweeper" rule, leaving the only priority standing: energy speculation even cloaked in favors of the "public interest".

“Psalm” of State

The state offices don't even lack the occasional phrases, almost a recommendation: we make you do everything, but do it conscientiously. The State "psalm" is shameless: " Economic operators guarantee maximum diligence regarding the state of science and technology in the construction and management of plants and the energy produced, the transparency of information and loyal cooperation for the purposes of the necessary checks ".

Deregulation

The text of the Legislative Decree, which has reached its final stages, provides for three authorization "regimes": "free activity, simplified authorization procedure and single authorisation". The "free" activity, without any authorization, includes photovoltaic systems from 1 to 10 megawatts and revamping interventions of no small importance also for wind power; the "simplified procedure", however, includes, among others, "systems photovoltaic and agrivoltaic systems installed on the ground located in industrial, artisanal and commercial areas, as well as in landfills or closed and restored landfill lots or in quarries or lots or portions of quarries not susceptible to further exploitation ". In this case, for most of the "simplified" interventions, silent consent is triggered: « If the proposing party is not notified of an express denial provision within twenty days of the presentation of the project, the qualification is considered acquired without any requirements ».

The coup

Finally, the rule regarding large projects: up to 300 megawatts are the responsibility of the Region, higher than the State. The deadlines in this case are rapid: from five days to thirty. At the end of the day, the times will have to respect the State imposition: « The deadline for concluding the conference is one hundred and twenty days starting from the date of the calling of the Services Conference ». In practice, the vast majority of projects presented in Sardinia appear to have already exceeded those deadlines. When the "pseudo" "suitable areas" arrive, they could all already be approved. Speculators are preparing to toast, on Sardinian land.

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