Wind invasion, business for 8 billion a year

Renewable hangover

In reality, however, no one takes note of this speculative madness which turns day after day into a veritable renewable "hangover", a greed that leads to a frontal attack on the Sardinian landscape. There isn't a single institution that has been able, or worse still wanted to, to put a stop to this mad rush to present cyclopean projects for wind farms or endless expanses of solar panels.

Far West

The Far West that has unleashed in Sardinia is illogical and irrational, if it weren't for that infernal machine of billionaire incentives that revolves around the island. In any sensible state, with a minimum of planning rationality, it would have been decided to pursue the only possible path: the generalized moratorium on this type of speculative plants. Instead, every day that passes, everything becomes more invasive, with Sardinia clearly under attack by lobbies, speculators and multinationals at all levels.

Moratorium

The reality is that without a decisive intervention on the legislative level, even at the regional level, which definitively blocks this environmental and landscape devastation, at the cost of a constitutional clash with the State, there is a risk of a wind massacre on the island. The powers that be, in fact, will continue to pocket billionaires taken from the pockets of citizens through electricity bills, where system charges prevail, including the billionaire incentives intended for the lords of the wind and the sun. A perverse and unsustainable mechanism capable of upsetting the state's financial system heavily conditioned by these copious donations of public money in favor of energetic lobbies.

Skip the bank

It would be enough to analyze the economic and financial consequences of the projects presented in Sardinia, through Terna, to get the exact picture of the incentives that would be paid every year if all those blades or panels were positioned far and wide across the island.

9,525 hectares of panels

Let's start with the endless expanses of solar panels that are planned to be "unloaded" on Sardinian farmland. The electricity connection projects foresee requests for as much as 19,050 megawatts. We are talking about at least ten times the entire current production of Sardinian renewable energy. Using a parameter of two megawatts of power per hectare of panels, quantities reported in the latest projects presented to the Ministry of Energy Security, it means that, in restrictive terms, a good 9,525 hectares of land would be needed to implement all those photovoltaic plans. Based on the average sizing of the panels, it means that the beauty of 38 million silicon panels would be poured into the agricultural fields of the island. Huge damage just for covering the topsoil, not to mention the devastating impact on the landscape. All of this, however, if implemented, would bring the beauty of at least 300,000 euros per year for each megawatt into the pockets of the famished farmers of the solar incentive. Multiplication generates “sci-fi” numbers. For those silicon panels scattered on the island, the State would be called upon to "give away" every year the beauty of 5 billion and 715 million euros in incentives. If we then consider that the period for the donation of public money for these photovoltaic plants is at least twenty years, this means that the total allocation becomes 114 billion. In practice, more than half of the Pnrr, 209 billion, allocated by Europe for the next 4 years, for all of Italy.

2,330 new land shovels

To these must be added the data of terrestrial wind power. In Sardinia, according to the distribution plans of the projects presented in Terna's offices, 210 megawatts of wind power are due in Cagliari, for 35 blades of six MW each, in Nuoro 2,100 MW and 350 blades, in Oristano 1,130 MW and 188 blades, in Sassari 5,780 MW and 964 blades, in Southern Sardinia 4,750 MW and 739 blades. In principle, each megawatt of power corresponds to an annual incentive of 140,000 euros. Each shovel thus earns a good 840,000 euros a year. If we multiply the annual incentive gain for a shovel by the expected 2330, we arrive, overall, at one billion and 957 million euros per year. The sum of the earnings from the panels and blades presented to Terna for the electricity connection brings us to mind-boggling figures: a good 7 billion and 672 thousand euros a year, almost as much as a regional finance company. In the twenty years of the incentive, it would reach 153 billion euros. Insane numbers, capable of sending the United States of America into default, let alone Italy. Sardinia puts the landscape, to pay the bills, however, the Sardinians take care of it.