The projects are coming to a head. The Region had blocked them, but its regulations were declared unconstitutional, and those who wanted to build them filed an appeal with the Regional Administrative Court. The result: "In compliance with the ruling, we hereby announce the resumption of the preliminary investigation process for the environmental impact assessment review," and then, following that, the name of the wind farm or photovoltaic project that's being relaunched. This appears repeatedly on the website of the regional Department of the Environment, which handles authorizations for projects exploiting renewable energy sources. It had happened in recent days with three proposals in the Sassari area. Now here's another, in Noragugume: a company bearing the town's name but based in Bolzano wants to install 100,000 square meters of photovoltaic panels with a capacity of 6,583.50 kW.
The request for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) dates back to September 2023. A year later, the Region declared the process that would lead to authorization or denial inadmissible: first by leveraging the moratorium imposed by the Regional Council, then—from December 2024 onward—by relying on the law on suitable areas. And the area on which they were planning to install 9,900 modules distributed across 330 strings, according to the maps drawn up at Villa Devoto, was not suitable. And that was enough, according to the offices, to no longer consider the project.
Except that both provisions on which the Region based its position were declared unconstitutional. And Ccen Noragugume Srl went to the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) to assert its rights. The administrative court acknowledged the collapse of the fragile regulatory framework erected by the Regional Council to protect the island's territory and ordered the reactivation of the proceedings dismissed by the authorities. now 100,000 square meters of photovoltaic panels loom over the Noragugume countryside.
