«It is not a moratorium», specifies the president of the Region Alessandra Todde. The one approved by the Regional Council this morning is a maximum 18-month stop to the construction of "new production and storage plants for electricity from renewable sources which directly affect land occupation".

A measure that was announced during the election campaign to try to counter the wind and photovoltaic invasion taking place on the island, overwhelmed with requests for the construction of plants: not energy transition but speculation. The urgent regulation aims to protect and safeguard the landscape and environment and to «foster the regulated and harmonious development of production and storage plants», we read in the text, «in harmony with the peculiarities and conservation of the regional territory, in compliance with regional competence of drafting and approving the PPR". The provision excludes plants producing electricity from renewable sources aimed at self-consumption, those falling within energy communities, and the use of building roofs for photovoltaic systems. The provision, temporary, aims to "avoid the irreversibility of impacts on the regional territory, in the absence of an update and completion of regional landscape, urban and energy planning".

«Our objective», Todde explained to journalists, «is to arrive within six months, therefore well before the 18 expected, to approve the update of the PPR with the map of suitable areas».

At the moment «there is a wild west with a regulatory vacuum. We took time to finalize the rules, negotiate with the State on the map of suitable areas which is now unacceptable. Meanwhile, there must not be a free all."

The no is not to the ecological transition «which must happen. But we need structural paths."

Video by Roberto Murgia

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)