THE PROJECT PROPOSAL UNDER EXAMINATION IS CONCERNED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW 150 KV ‘CANCANA’ POWER LINE, WHICH, IN COMBINATION WITH THE 380 KV AND 150 KV NETWORK PORTIONS OF THE BASILICATA REGION THROUGH THE EXISTING 380 150 KV TRANSFORMATION ELECTRICITY STATION (PZ) AND THE ‘OPPIDATE’ (PZ) AND SORTING POWER STATIONS, KNOWN AS ‘OPPIDO (PZ)’ AND ‘SCREENING’ (PZ)’, IS CLOSELY COMPLEMENTARY TO INTERVENTIONS ON DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS IN THE AREA OF INTEREST TO INCREASE THE EXPLOITATION OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES CONNECTED TO THESE NETWORKS TO THE EXTENT THAT IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO AVOID A SHARE OF THE WIND GENERATION (‘CP’) ‘CP’ AND ‘CP MELFI — CP ALTAMURA’ AT THE SAME TIME AS THE SIGNIFICANT RISE OF ENERGY BY THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK TO THE TRANSMISSION NETWORK THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN RECENT YEARS, AND AT LEAST 1 % OF OR