28.01.2014 11:59 Uhr 28/01/2014 11:59 clock
Distance control for wind turbines: Stage win for Seehofer
Von Moritz Kircher From Moritz Kircher
Munich. Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) has reached an important stage victory in the battle for wind power in Bavaria. He had long been advocating that the distances between establishments and residential areas are enlarged. Until the 9th April, the federal government wants to present a bill that makes this possible. A further expansion in Bavaria is thus considerably more difficult.
Ministerprdent Bavaria Horst Seehofer (CSU) has prevailed with the distance control for wind turbines. Foto: dpa Photo: AP
With the so-called countries in the Building Code clause the provinces should be given the opportunity to decide their own distance control for wind turbines. If it goes to Seehofer, the distance between the wind turbine and residential building is to be set at ten times the height of the plant. That would be about two kilometres in modern wind turbines.
Critics of the height-related distance usually seen in the end for the expansion of wind power in Bavaria. In the past three years, regional plans have been developed in which priority areas for wind turbines are reported. After courier information from the 18 regional planning organizations Bavaria remain from these surfaces almost nothing left, should the distance rule actually happen as planned by the prime minister.
It is still unclear whether exceptions to the distance control will be possible. Seehofer had repeatedly indicated to make this possible if all citizens are agreed locally, plans to build wind turbines.
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