Some say no. "Sardinia must not become anyone's energy colony". Agnese Cabigliera has a cheese production company (Cabigliera and Zidda) in Ozieri . To describe his activity he uses direct terms: « Tradition, biodiversity, happy grazing animals and a lot of passion for our work».
And he didn't mince words even to describe the telephone conversation with the representative of a company operating in the renewable energy sector. You, like many entrepreneurs from the Sardinian countryside, received a call with a proposal that, for some, cannot be refused: to make land available to install the most varied plants. From wind power to photovoltaics and agrivoltaics. With speeches littered with "green" and "energy". Not a bad thing in itself. On the contrary. But there is a big problem.
«In a nutshell, the gentleman offered me a chat for a possible collaboration for the installation of photovoltaic panels on the ground, on agricultural land», explains Cabigliera. His response, he says, was dry and firm. “I'm sorry for you, but you contacted the wrong person. As far as I'm concerned, Sardinia must not become anyone's energy colony».
The entrepreneur tells of an interlocutor "displaced, who tried to grab straws".
The questions that Cabigliera asks himself «are always the same. Do we really want to transform our island into an expanse of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines? If it is true that Sardinia aspires to become a tourist destination for 12 months a year», he reflects, «who would want to spend their holidays in a place where nature has been scarred? What wealth will we leave to our children if we use entire portions of the territory to produce energy? Why not take advantage of the existing structures and facilitate investments also in inhabited centres, where the roofs of the buildings could house the photovoltaic panels?».
