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What are the powers of the region's energy from renewable sources?
When should only be granted permission, and when the complaint is sufficient login?
The Constitutional Court has intervened many times in the field of renewable energy sources, and in the pages of the blog Legal nature of the site and has spoken often and in detail, topics covered by various judgments of the consultations: See in this connection the Constitutional Court rulings on post blog legal

La sentenza che vi consiglio oggi, Corte Costituzionale, n. 313/2010 , che potete consultare gratuitamente registrandovi al sito di Natura Giuridica , nell’affrontare alcune questioni di legittimità costituzionale di una legge della regione Toscana (n. 71 del 2009) ha affrontato i temi relativi alla valutazione d’impatto ambientale di elettrodotti per il trasporto di energia elettrica, ai “confini” di applicabilità della normativa sull’autorizzazione unica (e, di conseguenza, di quella sulla denuncia di inizio attività o DIA) e, infine, al riparto di competenze fra Stato e Regioni in materia di energia (da fonti sources, in this case).

In relation to the first argument, the consultation stressed that if the lines and electrical installations are subject to regional EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), the power of authorization level must be placed in relation to the ' intent to distribute within the jurisdiction of local governments. In short:

• the Region it is the environmental impact assessment for power outside air for the transport of electricity with a voltage rating greater than 100 chilovolts and path length exceeding 3 km, while it is the State
• Environmental Impact Assessment for overhead electrical power lines with voltage ratings higher than 150 chilovolts and path length of 15 kilometers of power lines and underground cable in AC circuit with a length exceeding 40 kilometers, it is therefore no basis for the question of the constitutionality of a regional law, in all cases in which - as in the present - the latter is susceptible to an interpretation that does not produce a lesion of the legislative competence of the state.

In relation to the second and third arguments (see also: "Authorization single complaint or login? What division of powers between state and regions in the motherland of energy ? "), The Constitutional Court has now put his hands on, remembering, once again, if proof were needed, that the general scheme which requires only an authorization exception only those plants that produce energy by less than indicated in a specific table annexed to Decree No. 387/03, for all types of renewable sources considered there: the exception is expressed in the fact that such facilities are subject to discipline only on a complaint of login.

What happened in this case?

The law of the Tuscany Region had increased the threshold above which an obligation the request for authorization only, extending, in fact, the option of using a simple report of logins. A
of a simplified procedure, in fact.

fact, the law had established the regional application of the framework of the DIA plants whose generation capacity is below the threshold of 100 kW for wind power and 200 kW for solar photovoltaics.

The Court has declared illegal, because higher thresholds of generation capacity and characteristics of the installation sites for which we proceed with other discipline, can only be identified by the Minister of Economic Development, in consultation with the Minister Environment and Protection of land and sea, in agreement with the Joint Conference, without which the region can do so individually.

Finally, the Constitutional Court (Case No. 313/2010) indicated that the ownership of the intervention to the construction of plants for the production of electricity using renewable sources does not mean that the implementation of a system generation of energy from renewable sources , like any public work is necessary sharing of all those stakeholders (environmental, cultural, urban, health) involved in project execution.

The purpose of the composition of the interests involved is pursued by the single forecast that, while assigned to a regional focus, is the result of a conference service, which takes the aim of simplification and acceleration of administrative function coordination and mediation of interests in order to identify, through the simultaneous balancing of the interests of those who represent them, the primary and overriding public interest.

For this reason, it is unlawful under a regional, such as the Tuscan, exempt from qualifying title - DIA, complaint Logon – l’installazione di alcuni tipi di impianti – pannelli solari fotovoltaici di potenza nominale uguale o inferiore a 1 megawatt, impianti eolici di potenza nominale uguale o inferiore a 1 megawatt, impianti a fonte idraulica di potenza nominale uguale o inferiore a 200 chilowatt – quando la Regione e gli enti locali siano soggetti responsabili degli interventi, realizzati tenendo conto delle condizioni fissate dal piano di indirizzo energetico regionale.

Natura Giuridica di Andrea Quaranta: Studio di Consulenza legale Ambientale .

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