A "green turning point" worth over 130 million euros: this is what the Cacip - the provincial industrial consortium of Cagliari - is preparing to implement with a series of investments in the recovery of materials and in the production of energy from waste.
The 63 million euro revamping project fits into this picture, financed for 47 million by the Region and the remainder by the Consortium, for the waste-to-energy plant managed by the subsidiary Tecnocasic.
The plant - explains a note - allows the elimination of non-recyclable waste and produces electricity which - in addition to making the waste-to-energy plant self-sufficient - feeds all the others owned by the Cacip.
The interventions provide for the replacement of two of the three incineration lines, capable of producing 23/MW each in one year. Work on line A is now well advanced and will be tested and delivered before the end of the year: the demolition and reconstruction of line B will begin in early 2024.
"Our goal - explains Barbara Porru , president of Cacip - is to redesign our industrial model, in order to meet the new challenges that we will have to face from now to the next ten years due to problems related to energy supply".
"An extraordinary opportunity - says the mayor of Cagliari and of the metropolitan city Paolo Truzzu - for Cagliari and for all the municipalities of the metropolitan city".
The Consortium has also managed to obtain additional funds to bring the latest technical and scientific solutions to the composting station: the revamping works will end in the second half of 2023. The cost of the intervention is 24 million euros, financed with European funds , regional, and of the Cacip. With a view to the ecological transition, the Consortium has launched a program of further interventions.
The project that will pave the way for the construction of a recovery center in the industrial area, authorized in December 2021, has allowed Cacip to participate in a tender that will allow it to invest 18 million euros in the construction of a new plant for the recovery of plastic.
Also within the scope of the Pnrr tenders are also two projects presented by the Consortium: the first, financed with 10 million euros, envisages the construction of a plant for the recovery of nappies and absorbent cloths.
The other project, financed with 10 million, involves the production of biomethane through the anaerobic digestion of the purification sludge produced in the Macchiareddu environmental platform, without emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. Even valorisation of bulky materials: a 10,000 tonnes/year plant is planned, entirely financed with own resources.
(Unioneonline/lf)
