Photovoltaic infrastructure
A few years ago, Cipnes launched an infrastructural programme for the production of electricity from renewable sources through a series of interventions and works which, in line with the most recent guidelines on territorial planning, do not envisage the expansion and further "consumption" of land, but the redevelopment of already man-made and settled areas.
The Consortium has carried out:
- a 1000 KWp photovoltaic system at a part no longer active and now undergoing environmental reclamation of the consortium landfill of Spiritu Santu. The plant, which covers an area of about 40,000 square meters, is part of a project of ecological redevelopment and energy efficiency and enhancement of the consortium landfill plant area through the production of energy from photovoltaic solar energy source that makes the pair with the existing plant for the energy recovery of biogas produced from waste. The estimated annual production is around 1.1 Gwh, the equivalent of the annual energy needs of 1000 people, for a total estimated revenue for the entire economic life in 8 million euros.
- A photovoltaic field inside a disused quarry. The plant covers a total area of about 20,000 square meters. The estimated annual production is around 1.2 Gwh, the equivalent of the annual energy needs of 1100 people, and a total estimated revenue for the entire economic life of 8 million euros.
-The Regional Department of Industry has issued the Unique Authorization to Cipnes Gallura (determination 244 of 23 April 2018) for the construction and operation plant for the electricity production from renewable solar photovoltaic source with about 2 MWp power (to be exact 1969,92 kwp), positioned on roofing canopies of a running and cycle path inside the industrial area of Olbia. The work is already financed with a 20-year loan of about 5 million euros without interest, fully refundable with the reduction of energy expenditure, dispensed by the European Community funds “Jessica”.
The cycle and running track, whose works will begin next autumn, will be built with colored photovoltaic panels and will wind, starting from the peri-urban entrance of the Olbia industrial consortium district (opposite McDonald's), towards the coast road of the industrial area to Golfo Aranci until the archaeological site of Pozzo Sacro, nearby the Pittulongu’s and Golfo Aranci’s beaches.