St. Peter's, north and south. Sardinia South, 1 and 2. The projects for the construction of offshore wind farms in the sea of southern Sardinia that appear on the notice board of the Cagliari Coast Guard come in pairs, and there are four of them : the aim is to carry out a screening " preliminary as to the compatibility of the systems with the safety of maritime navigation and with other maritime activities". Anyone who believes that those towers are a danger has less than a month to write it.
There are two proposing companies. For the two San Pietro parks, the authorization request comes from Ninfea Rinnovabili Srl, with registered office in Largo Augusto, 3 in Milan. It requests 160,163,097 square meters of water beyond the boundary of the territorial sea, off the coast of Portoscuso for the installation of 34 wind turbines with floating foundations for the northern project and 195,191,811 square meters for the southern project: it provides for another 34 wind turbines in the same area, but more towards Sant'Antioco. The reports attached to the project state that the floating towers will be so far away, between 24 and 28 kilometers from the coast, that the visual impact would be "minimal".
The same "reassurance" provided by Avenhexicon Srl, based in viale Majno, also in Milan, which presents the projects with an English name. In the stretch of sea in front of Capo Teulada and Capo Spartivento, he is asking for 169,555,833 square meters of sea to install 30 blades and another 395,104,969 square meters of water, in front of the island of Toro, to place another 64 wind turbines.
In addition, for each project, there are another million square meters to be granted for the passage of cable ducts for the transport of the energy produced: one attached to Portovesme, the other to Selargius.
In total, therefore, we are talking about concessions for almost one billion square meters of sea in front of Sardinia for the installation of floating wind turbines.
Henry Fresu