The largest park in the world serravoltaico produces fruit and vegetables, clean energy and jobs. Too bad that the technologies are Indian and American.
The basic idea is probably to achieve maximum incentives, suffering less impact in a rule that said that only 10% of the arable land of which they may have encumbered by solar panels. After the invention agrovoltaico, with solar panels placed at 5 meters in height on arable land, and is now the serravoltaico. In Sardinia, in Campidano, has just created the largest park in the world.
The panels do not sacrifice production. The plant is designed for growing quality fruit and vegetables, melon, watermelon, zucchini Roman, fennel, and pride, the fruits of love, or the pink berry high demand in the Netherlands. The solar greenhouse has been built on Scioffu Villasor, 25 km from Cagliari. Compared with oil-or coal-fired plants, allows significant energy savings: 25 thousand tons of CO2 and provides electricity to 10 thousand households in Sardinia. The large park photovoltaic sets a world record for size and power: 20MW in an area of 27 hectares, with 84 thousand solar panels in one field and 134 greenhouses.
The only slightly disappointing aspect of the technologies used and the main industrial players involved in the creation of the park are not Italian, but Indians and Americans. On this critical issue has recently given the new environment minister Corrado Clini, stressing that public incentives provided to renewable energy bill currently in the fourth should be reformulated to encourage domestic enterprises to compete on this front increasingly strategic .
The central green, in fact, was built with an investment of Euro-Indian 70milioni Moser Baer Clean Energy (Mbcel) in collaboration with the American giant General Electric (GE). The agricultural management is entrusted to the Twelve Energy involving five cooperatives and will consist of 90 new jobs. The coop will take care of the marketing and sale of products, guaranteeing a secure source of income.
