Technicians attempted to remodel it to reduce its impact. But to no avail: the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security rejected the project to build an agrivoltaic farm in Porto Torres. The proposing company, Green2grid Srl, wanted to build a system "divided into four areas and eleven sub-fields, consisting of 76,440 bifacial monocrystalline silicon modules , with a nominal power of 720 Wp, mounted on 1,639 trackers (2.49 meters rotation axis height) with single-axis tracking." After the initial ministerial "remarks," as part of a procedure initiated in September 2022, the ambitions (and scope) were scaled back. Not enough.
The recently issued ministerial decree, which gives a negative opinion, recalls the opinion of the Special Superintendency for the PNRR of the Ministry of Culture, which wrote: "It is believed that the plant, which interferes directly with environmental landscape assets (coastal strip) and indirectly with environmental and historical-cultural landscape assets , as well as with cultural assets pursuant to Part II of the Urbani Code, also taking into account the cumulative impact of similar initiatives already present or underway in the same territorial area, generates a significant negative impact that cannot be mitigated at the local level."
In short, that expanse of panels was too much for an area already thriving with solar panels. And so it was rejected.
