A new agrivoltaic offensive is underway in the Montiferru region, this time in the San Leonardo countryside, within the municipality of Santu Lussurgiu, on land already used for agriculture, particularly livestock farming, a cornerstone of the Lussurgiu economy. The project, quietly proposed by a Trieste-based company, would be an agrivoltaic power plant with a nominal output of 19.847 MW, with a declared grid output of 16.8 MW, including related connection works.
The Legal Intervention Group's opposition was clear : "San Leonardo is protected by landscape and cultural restrictions. Yet, right there, with a simple simplified permit procedure, a Trieste-based energy company intends to build plants that, due to their projected capacity, must undergo a prior and binding environmental impact assessment review process," explains president Stefano Deliperi.
An agrivoltaic power plant with a high impact on the landscape: "There is absolutely no need to overturn a site of such great naturalistic, historical and cultural importance – continues Deliperi - in Sardinia, the requests for connection of new plants submitted to Terna (the national electricity grid operator) as of January 31, 2026 total 645, equal to 45.08 GW of power, divided into 409 requests for solar energy production plants for 16.81 GW (37.28%), 212 requests for onshore wind energy production plants for 14.38 GW (31.90%), 23 requests for offshore wind energy production plants for 13.89 GW (30.80%) and 1 request for hydroelectric energy production plants for 0.01 GW (0.01%). This means more than 23 times the plants currently existing on the island, with a total capacity of 1.93 GW: 1926 MW existing, of which 1,054 MW of onshore wind energy + 872 of photovoltaic solar energy».
For Deliperi it is «an overdose of energy that could not be consumed on the Island , which already today produces around 38% more than its own needs and which could not be transported to the Peninsula, because when the Tyrrhenian Link comes into operation the total power of the three pipelines will be around 2 thousand MW, and it could not even be stored».
Santu Lussurgiu Mayor Diego Loi explains : "These are content items that have been reviewed and revisited and are the subject of ongoing collective reflection. There is a law, the one on Suitable Areas, codified by the Region with my ratification. However, the law has been challenged by the State, so everything that can be implemented today is a product of the laws."
The use of renewable energy sources (sun, wind, water) is "sacrosanct, but in the absence of planning and even simple common sense, it is fostering the worst forms of energy speculation. It's time for each of us to make our voices heard by signing the petition promoted by GRIG. Nearly 23,000 of us have already done so. We still have time to change things for the better," concludes Deliperi.
