Remove the pylons from Matera. The city of the Sassi, which this year is the European capital of culture, and its surrounding area will be even more beautiful to see after the mayor of Matera, Raffaello De Ruggieri, and Terna's CEO, Luigi Ferraris, signed a memorandum of understanding for the rationalization of the local electricity grid. The signature between the institution and the company that manages the national electricity grid will bring great environmental and functional benefits to Matera, the inhabited center and the territory they will be freed from the presence of 40 pylons, thus allowing approximately 37 hectares to be returned to the city. The rationalization work will also bring important benefits to the local electricity system, making it safer, more efficient and able to cope with the growing production of renewable energies and the extensive civil and industrial development of the area.
The signed protocol integrates and improves the previous one, signed in 2008, which has already brought important benefits to the city thanks to the burial of over 5 km of the line that crossed the town. The new interventions envisaged by the current protocol will also make it possible to bury the electricity line which starts from the primary substation in Matera and which runs for about 6,5 km up to Matera Nord. With regard to the already planned movement of the Matera – Grottole – Salandra power line outside the town, the protocol signed today provides for some significant improvements to the project.
Terna thus confirms its approach to dialogue with local communities, also sanctioned by the latest industrial plan wanted by Ferraris, and in synergy with the municipal administration will be available to the citizens of Matera with its technicians on Friday 21 June, from 12 to 19 to present the interventions envisaged by the protocol and to answer questions from the local community.
“Terna's intervention in the urban area – he underlines the mayor of Matera, Raffaello De Ruggieri – has a significant landscape importance for the city. The burial of the high voltage cables, which mark the hill of the Castle, as well as guaranteeing greater safety conditions for citizens, allows us to restore the dignity of particular historical places while guaranteeing the provision of essential services for the life of the community . For this, I thank Terna's CEO, Luigi Ferraris, who has shown great sensitivity and great attention to the city as the European Capital of Culture”.
“The enhancement of local areas is at the heart of Terna's commitment – he declares Luigi Ferraris, CEO of Terna – and the signing of this protocol in the very year in which the city is celebrated as European capital of culture makes us particularly proud. We will demolish all the pylons that are currently present in various districts of Matera: from Via Annibale di Francia and Via Timmari to State Road 7, up to the industrial area. The interventions that we undertake to carry out, in close collaboration with the Municipality, are the result of an approach of dialogue with the territory it represents today, together with the sustainability of the works and attention to the environment, to the artistic heritage and to the territories, an essential value in Terna's strategy.”
