Generating electricity from the sun is not only environmentally friendly, it can also be lucrative. The community of Uffing would therefore like to contribute financially to a photovoltaic system that a Munich company is planning at Schachmoos. And citizens should also benefit from it.
Uffing / Schöffau - The municipality of Uffing would like to take a third in the planned free-field photovoltaic system in the area of the Schöffau chess moss. This opinion prevailed in the meeting of the Main and Finance Committee, which took place in the primary school gym because of the corona crisis. The Munich-based company Vispiron is known to plan to build and operate the plant.
Citizens should be able to participate
"The total cost of the project amounts to around 750,000 euros," Mayor Andreas Weiß (impartial) calculated before the committee. “We would have to bear 250,000 euros of this.” The new city hall chief wants to raise 80 percent of this sum through borrowed capital, ie with the help of financing. He would like to pass on the remaining 20 percent to the citizens: "They should be able to participate directly in the system."
Details are still missing
The exact key points still have to be worked out, as well as the possibilities of the planned public participation, he continued. The committee could not make a decision that evening: "Because the invitation to the meeting came at a time when it was not certain whether we would be able to get a decision-making committee together," explained Weiß. This will be made up for in the next meeting of the committee on June 18, before the decision has yet to be confirmed by the local council.
Construction time of six weeks
The other two partners, who also contribute 250,000 euros to the project, are the Munich company in question, who will build the plant, and Penzberger Stadtwerke as the landowner. "We gave a third of the citizens in the community the opportunity to get involved in the project and become partners," said Vispiron Managing Director Florian Schönberger when asked about Tagblatt. “This gives them the opportunity to pass on the profits they have made to the citizens. How this is handled in Schöffau is not in our hands. I would be happy if this happens. ”Construction could begin six to eight weeks after the said statute resolution. Schönberger specifies the construction time to be about six weeks.
Around 3200 modules
The area for the collectors occupies 12 040 square meters, the area below the modules remains essentially unchanged, according to Vispiron. A dismantling could take place at any time. A total of 3204 modules are to be mounted on 534 module tables and reach a height of around three meters. In addition, the construction of a transfer and transformer station (five by three meters) and a battery storage house (six by three meters) are planned on the property. According to Schönberger, the area can be grazed, as is the case, for example, with the 45,000-square-meter photovoltaic open-space system on Autobahn 95 near Eschenlohe. "A sheep owner has already shown interest," says the managing director.
System should fit in gently
The first public interpretation of the plans for the Schöffau project was in autumn 2019. However, no major objections to the project were raised. The government of Upper Bavaria, however, demands that the facility be carefully inserted into the landscape. As Schönberger found out, the area should be planted accordingly.
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