"It costs too much, no more offshore wind power." Someone must have reported in Rome that, well before kickoff, more than a thousand offshore wind turbines have been planned around the island's main beaches . Ruining age-old landscapes, devastating marine ecosystems, and making shipping more treacherous, which, as we know, is not easy to manage on an island.

The curtain seems to be falling on offshore wind power in Italy. In her speech at Palazzo Madama, regarding communications ahead of the European Council of March 19 and 20, 2026, as well as developments in the Middle East crisis, discussing energy issues, it was Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, not a bystander, who dictated the government's position .

Text: "Regarding renewables, we addressed the enormous speculation lurking behind the adoption of these technologies, when the costs of decarbonization are transformed into revenue for plants that, in many cases, have already been paid for by consumers' bills. Likewise, in our view, we cannot burden Italians with technologies that are immature and characterized by extremely high costs, such as offshore wind, which alone would have cost over €200 per megawatt hour," Meloni stated without hesitation. "So, yes to renewables—this is the government's position—but no to household and business bills inflated by objectively overly generous incentives ." Predictably, the offshore wind magnates were not at all pleased.
The Prime Minister's statement on her intention to close the doors to offshore towers appears to be a glimmer of hope in the face of the devastation expected to occur in the wind farms off Cagliari, Carloforte, Alghero, Bosa, and the Costa Smeralda . Giorgia Meloni's words—the frame of a particularly nuanced speech—were overshadowed by the irritated reactions of wind multinationals to her government's new stance. But, spoken by the Prime Minister, they are binding.