The story is surreal. All played on the wind and the sea of Sardinia. On one side the most famous coast of the island, on the other two nations, distant and opposite, Sweden and Denmark. The plot does not allow for sovereignty of any kind. Here, in this dispute on the open sea, there are two foreign companies which are contending, with everyone's silence, a gigantic stretch of sea close to Terranova, the ancient Olbia, and the Costa Smeralda, the one invented 60 years ago by Ishmaelite prince Aga Khan Karim. Orbi barrels, from one harbor office to another, from the Gallura one to the Lazio one of Civitavecchia. If there weren't the documents, the papers, the maps, the legal actions already started we would be faced with a farce. Instead, all true.
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International feud
In the most important maritime route between Sardinia and the Continent, the Tyrrhenian one, with the inaction of Italy, of the "sovereign" one that wants to chatter and defend the borders of the country, and the indifference of regional institutions, a unprecedented international feud to devastate that stretch of sea with blows of wind turbines up to 380 meters high. The foreign landing on the Sardinian sea is known, our investigation in recent months had uncovered the marine invasion off the coast of Tavolara and Caprera, but now the crime is turning into a real international war with the Danes ready to oppose with every amidst the Swedish claims to insinuate themselves in the same stretch of sea.
Pale on top of each other
In practice, the two companies ended up positioning, not only figuratively, the wind turbines one above the other, as if that stretch of sea were a non-transferable gold deposit. The sequence of events is marked by invasion dates and plans, connection strategies to the electricity grids and records of technological efficiency. The first to land in the sea in the middle of the ferry route from Olbia to Livorno and Civitavecchia is an unknown "srl", the "Zefiro Vento", capital of ten thousand euros, coming from Denmark, made up of a Serbian on the move, a certain Bejdic Jasmin , the operating arm of Copenhagen Energy. It is he who first, on May 10, 2022, takes off the front row ticket at the Port Authority of Olbia. His plan is punctuated by a fact that is impossible even to pronounce: the concession of a stretch of sea in front of the Gallura capital of one billion and 747 million square meters. The project is unprecedented in Sardinia, Italy and Europe: 210 wind turbines 385 meters high, to be "floated" right in front of the gateway to Sardinia, on that White Island which has always been the landing point of the main access routes to the island.
Sicily and Campania
The Dane of “Zefiro Vento” is generous, his project foresees the docking of that gigantic wind farm right in the port of Olbia. It is a pity, however, that its 3,150 megawatts, many of which it plans to "brush" into the sea in front of Porto Cervo, would all end up in Sicily and Campania, connected to the continent thanks to the new electricity connection cable, the "Tyrrhenian Link", the one that Terna is planning with a "crazy" expenditure of 3 billion and 700 million. Nothing would remain in Sardinia, if not the perennial disfigurement of the sea in front of the island. That stretch of sea, in a very short time, as we have revealed step by step, is been the subject of other projects of wind invasion at sea.Together with that of Zefiro, two others were presented: the Nurax Wind Power, 33 blades, and the Tibula Energia, 65. A potential electricity production of over 7,000 megawatts, three times as much as that produced by the island's thermoelectric plants, all to be connected with the Gallura port, but also to be shipped to the mainland.
The trick of Civitavecchia
The comings and goings in those months had been all towards the Port Authority of Olbia. In the mid-August distraction, however, two companies, one already known in Sardinia, that of Nurax Wind, and a company with Swedish connotations, overlooked the Sardinian side through the Port Authority of Civitavecchia, on the other side of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The operation is sibylline and shameless: to collect the Sardinian wind and convey it through a connection cable directly to the Lazio coast. The Swedes, however, were not totally ignorant of the island. A few weeks before the blitz in Rome they had set out to devastate the stretch of water in front of Capo Caccia in Alghero.
North East Sardinia
The Swedish operation in the land of Rome, after all, was essentially confirmed by the name of the project: «Sardinia North East». The company in the field is "Avenhexicon", the first that in this assault on the island of Sardinia has applied to "smear" the sea of the Costa Smeralda with bi-blade technology, i.e. each float will be equipped with two wind turbines, each of 322 meters high, to be more clear, each blade higher than 20 meters of the Eiffel Tower. The daring operation envisages circumventing the planning congestion at the Olbia harbor office and setting up a circumvention of the obstacle by placing the blades close to the Sardinian territorial waters, precisely flush, and to provide for the electrical connection with the Lazio coast.
Lazio blitz discovered
Hence the blitz in Civitavecchia, which was to remain out of the spotlight, hidden in the maze of a distant and unthinkable harbor office. The project, however, ends up on the pages of the Sardinian Union: a request for the concession of a body of water in front of Olbia to place 86 blades, with 25 megawatts of power each, or 2,150 megawatts of energy for over 2.5 million users. It was at that moment that war broke out among the foreign "seekers" of Sardinian wind. Bejdic Jasmin, owner of the Danish "Zeffiro Vento", the one of the gigantic assault of 210 wind turbines in front of Olbia and Porto Cervo, takes pen and paper and writes a formal opposition to the Swedish project presented in Civitavecchia.
Fire opposition
Four pages of fire to dismantle the project presented in the Lazio Captaincy and ask for its rejection. The first attack can be summarized: the Swedes want to put the blades on top of the Danish ones. They write it without half measures in the opposition filed in the "county" of Rome: «The area requested in concession by the company Avenhexicon Srl largely falls within the area already requested in concession by the undersigned company and therefore the initiative of this company is configured as a competitor with that of the writer".
Denmark versus Sweden
In order to unhinge the Swedish competition, the Danes in the opposition letter spare no free self-censure: «The writer Zefiro Vento is a company belonging to Copenhagen Energy A/S, which can boast an international experience of over 15 years in the development and construction of offshore wind farms, particularly attentive to the protection of habitats and natural landscapes, without sacrificing energy producibility". The conclusions are all explicit: "It follows that the wind plant designed by the writing company (Danish) provides greater guarantees regarding the achievement of the objectives set by European and Italian legislation on decarbonisation, the fight against climate change and the increase in energy production electricity from renewable sources. As if the wind collected in Sardinian land had beneficial effects only on the basis of the foreign state that snatches it from Sardinia.
The public interest?
The final disposition is without appeal: «In view of all the foregoing, there is no doubt that, also on the basis of the parameters referred to in Art. 37 Cod. Nav., the application of the exponent Zefiro Vento Srl should be preferred to the competing one of Avenhexicon Srl, as it offers greater guarantees of profitable use of the concession requested for a use of more significant public interest». The foreign war in the Sardinian sea, therefore, is only just beginning. In this story, even the Danes mistake mere private and foreign interest, made up of incentives and billionaire gifts, as public interest. It is a pity that in this umpteenth pantomime of wind business on the island's head not only will Sardinia gain nothing, but it will see its sea, its routes, devastated by a wind invasion flying a foreign flag, whether Swedish or Danish.
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