The headquarters is in the city of red lights and temporary offices. In this land on the borders of Europe, in the Netherlands of windmills, Amsterdam has always been the capital of disposable goods, as befits those who love making money without too many pleasantries and in a short time. To reach number 22 of Kabelweg, the extreme outskirts of the main city of the Netherlands, you have to cross neighborhoods where "rubbish" incinerators and gigantic wind turbines placed between playgrounds and arterial roads coexist right in the center.
“mouse-grey” palace
The building, four floors of anonymous "mouse-grey" bricks, jail-style windows, doesn't even have a sign. At the entrance only anonymous buttons asking for an audience. Not even a shred of indication on the landing where the gentlemen who want to "break the bank" in the port of Oristano to make it the hub for the construction and assembly of offshore wind turbines sporadically "stumble" for at least half a year, according to the "modest" declared ambitions. Europe.
Timed room
If in these hourly offices you ask for "Oristano CAP srl", the pompous " Oristano Construction & Assembly Port ", the look becomes grim, as if you had cursed. In the "disposable" system of Dutch memory, they will never tell you if someone with that name is carrying out a business in a small room in Sardinia. All this despite the fact that in the new corporate website of the Sardinian-Dutch company there is a bombastic display of the location in the land of tulips two years ago when they presented two offshore projects to gut the sea in front of Carloforte and Sant'Antioco with wind turbines. Even on that occasion they "threatened" to use the port of Oristano to assemble the giant "slicers" to be placed on the ". Bluefin tuna route” and tourism in the south of the island.
Booming company
Now, however, the company's registration at the Oristano Chamber of Commerce, dated 16 November last year, suggests that appetites are awakening, complete with promises of jobs galore, unlimited public funding and even the " threat” of endlessly “plaguing” Sardinia and the Mediterranean with wind turbines at sea and beyond. The objective, therefore, despite the absence of any corporate experience, is to get our hands on the Oristano port, the opposite shore of Northern European wind energy business on Sardinian soil. A deal that announces itself with many mysteries, a thousand corporate streams and even noble titles, from Princes to Counts, passing through a myriad of plots waiting to be discovered. In the "occupation" plan for the Oristano airport they announce eye-watering numbers: « CAP Oristano will be able to build, assemble and start up 50 units with 15 – 18 megawatt wind turbines every year, corresponding to approximately 1000 megawatts per year ». No longer, therefore, a temporary assembly, but a permanent one as if the invasion of the sea had no end. They are so optimistic that they never use the conditional in the conjugation of their statements: «Oristano CAP is a unique structure in an industrial port area on the west coast of Sardinia, where offshore wind resources can be built and assembled at a fraction of the actual cost. The “Oristano CAP” will help offshore wind farm developers overcome the high costs of floating offshore wind and put Italian SMEs at the center of the supply chain." In short, benefactors of low cost offshore. It's a shame that on the site with which they propose themselves on the air there isn't a shred of a project, a minimum of authorization, a glimmer of financial capacity given that the "esserrelle" has a paid-up capital of just fifteen thousand euros. It doesn't seem like a small thing to them, given that immediately afterwards they state with bold self-conviction: «The Oristano CAP is the main structure for the construction and assembly of offshore wind assets serving the Mediterranean region. Come and discover the future of offshore wind with us." Propaganda stuff from times gone by, like selling a crate of watermelons "along the road", between Sinis and Santa Giusta. In reality, apart from the Dutch residence declared on the digital site, very little is known about this corporate structure. The tax domicile registered by the Oristano CAP at the Chamber of Commerce is Santa Giusta, via Giovanni Marongiu, "without a house number", as if it were a frill to be avoided. A small flaw, that of omitting the house number, which does not appear to be an isolated case. The data of the President of the Company himself declares a "contact address" in "Località Portovesme" also "without a house number", as if that industrial area were not a labyrinth of chimneys and road networks. Elements that cloak yet another operation in a thousand mysteries, starting from the administrators of this newly launched company.
The Count of the Wind
Leading it is a nobleman, who calls himself neither Prince nor Count, but who in the family registers is recorded as «Don Eugenio Barbiano di Belgiojoso» none other than «Count of the Holy Roman Empire». It is he who, no one knows in what capacity, whether by grace received or by dynastic lineage, has long been one of the many Lords of the wind who landed in Sardinia to make money and state incentives.
Combing flamingos
The ultimate ambition is to make the Port of Oristano its own, to assemble wind turbines to float in the middle of the sea, as if the vocation of those surrounding lagoons had suddenly been transformed into a "hairdresser" for mullets and flamingos, to combing to the sound of rotating offshore propellers, that of the wind, which has never failed despite the corporate misfortunes of other wind energy ventures, such as the one we report in the official extracts from the Companies House of the United Kingdom in which the " Condor " appears. Energy Limited , a company under English law that went belly up and of which the "Count" was part of the directors since 2014 also includes Martin Gerd Jacubowski, a German from Hanau who has long been involved in German affairs on the Sardinian and non-Sardinian winds. Alone.
Impossible gifts to the "Count"
After having set their sights on the Isola del Toro, in front of the two Sulcis islands of Carloforte and Sant'Antioco, now, therefore, the "nobles" of the wind would like to take possession of the Port of Oristano. Official documents on this operation are nowhere to be found, considering that the entrustment of a public area such as the port to a "very private" company, albeit cloaked in noble titles, and which has just been established, would trigger the interest of other bodies of the State very attentive to what happens with renewables in Sardinia. And it would be unthinkable, and unjustifiable, that Ministries or Invitalia itself, the financial arm of the State, had decided to "give" public money and imprimatur to the "Count of the Wind" who, together with " Seawind Ocean Technology", has long wanted to shore up the Sardinian sea to the sound of "steel skyscrapers" over 300 meters high. With the current times, however, it is better not to trust.
