The blitz takes place at night. Date 27 June 2022. It is late in the evening when the new assault on the coasts of the island is triggered. For the first time on the west coast, the one that goes from Alghero to Bosa. To sign the notice of the new assault on the Sardinian coasts is the Captain of Frigate Gabriele Peschiulli, Head of the Maritime Department and Commander of the Port Authority of Porto Torres. This time the project is Spanish. It was presented by none other than the company “Acciona Energia Globa Italia srl”. The operation is all played in the usual silence that precedes the summer blitz on the Sardinian coast.
Thirty years of sea
The subject of the request is explicit: "A thirty-year state-owned maritime concession, aimed at the installation and operation of an offshore wind power plant for the production of energy by exploiting the wind from the Western Sardinian Sea, in the stretch of water between Capo Marargiu and Capo Mannu ». In this case it is a total area of over 3 million and 261 thousand square meters of water. It is the harbor master's office of Porto Torres that involves the Oristano one with a phonogram of 22 June last, given that the coastal strip concerned covers two provinces, that of Sassari and that of Oristano. With a provision of the Ministry of Infrastructures, they had the mandate to assess the request for the compatibility of the application for a maritime state concession with the safety profiles of navigation and other civil activities / uses of the sea. The Alghero Maritime District Office must also have to express it. The Spaniards of Acciona are also applying to occupy the western stretch of the Sardinian sea for a good thirty years, this is the duration of the concession requested. The purpose of the new invasion is explicit: "Installation and operation of an offshore wind power plant consisting of 32 blades with an electrical power of 15 MW each, for a total of 480 MW, equipped with floating foundations, and relative path of submarine conduits for the connection with landing point on land located in the west pier of the Port of Alghero up to the connection point to the Terna plant at the Fiume Santo thermoelectric plant ". Also in this case we are dealing with cyclopean wind turbines around 300 meters high which must be placed over 12 miles from the coast but understandably visible also due to the characteristics of the altitude of that stretch of coast. The projects of "Acciona Energia Global Italia Srl" should be viewable from this morning and will remain available in the State Property section of the Porto Torres Harbor Master's Office.
Summer times
In the notice of the Harbor Master's Office there is also an invitation to present observations-objections which can be registered this morning for thirty days, again in the State offices in Porto Torres. In the notice it is written: "All those who believe they have an interest, to submit in writing to the Port Authority of Porto Torres, within the peremptory term of thirty consecutive days from the date of publication of this Notice until July 27, 2022, the observations / oppositions that they deem appropriate to protect their possible rights, warning that, once the established term has elapsed, no complaint and / or request will be accepted and further procedures relating to the requested maritime state concession will be given ".
Competitors advised
Also in this case, the Ministry does not want to waste any more time: "Any questions competing with the published one must be submitted in writing to the Port Authority of Porto Torres, under penalty of inadmissibility, within the same deadline set for the submission of observations / objections and published solely for the purpose of the possible submission of consequent and related observations / oppositions, but will not lead to the reopening of the terms for the presentation of further competing applications ". The West Coast operation is sudden. Yet another blitz by the lords of the wind in the Sardinian sea.