District of Munich / Neuried - wind power from Forstenrieder Park - the project is becoming more and more concrete: four to six large rotors could be built along the A95 in the forest.
If everything goes well, the community wind farm will be a reality in autumn 2024, by mid-2025 at the latest.
Neuried and Pullach have initiated a working group (Arge), Schäftlarn has joined, and Baierbrunn has also agreed, provided the district contributes to the costs. The Committee on Energy Transition, Agriculture and the Environment unanimously approved this on Tuesday. The wind farm will cost several million, but they could be balanced after only twelve years. Until December 31st, Gauting, Starnberg and the district of Starnberg can still decide whether they too want to join the consortium as residents. The members will then decide whether each member will receive a wind turbine: In other words, whether the wind farm will be implemented with four, five or six wind turbines.
Pullach and Neuried have been pursuing the idea of a wind farm in Forstenrieder Park for a long time.
You have successfully applied to the government of Upper Bavaria for a so-called wind care worker.
Together with the Sollner energy specialist Peter Beermann, they are driving the wind farm forward step by step.
In Forstenrieder Park, a community-free area has been found at Ludwigs-Geräum that fulfills the 10-H rule in all directions: Since the wind turbines are around 240 meters high, the distance would have to be 2.4 kilometers.
There could be space for six wind turbines at a distance of 2700 meters.
A wind turbine is expected to produce ten to twelve million kilowatt hours of electricity per year: "That corresponds to the electricity consumption of around 3,000 households," says Beermann.
Each wind turbine requires around 5000 square meters of space, although 2500 square meters will be planted directly at the site after the system has been set up. The remaining sealed square meters will be afforested on the edge of the Bannwald, "therefore the Forstenrieder Park will be a little bigger in the end."
Next, a long-term wind measurement is commissioned, and nature conservation issues are also examined in expert reports. Then the citizens' project is organized. "Based on the church tower principle, the citizens of the municipalities that have joined may participate financially," said Beermann. Those who live closer to it have access to shares first. However, large individual participations are not desired, "one wants to achieve broad citizen participation," said Beermann. Ultimately, this increases acceptance. Citizens will be able to buy shares for between 5,000 and 10,000 euros. Assuming that the community wind farm will be founded as a GmbH & Ko KG and the EEG remuneration forecast for 2024 remains, the interest rate could be five percent.
At the request of the municipalities involved, the district will not join the consortium itself, but will cushion the cost risk in the event that the project fails. In contrast to the projects in the Hofoldinger and Höhenkirchner Forest, where the district became members of the working groups, the project in Forstenrieder Park, supported by the Windkümmerer, is already very advanced: A site security contract with the Bavarian State Forests, which are the landowners, was concluded and the Working Group Forstenrieder Park established.
"We would become a member without being able to have a say, I don't know whether that would be good," said District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU), explaining the reluctance.
In the other two working groups, the district had taken on the task of drawing up contracts with the state forests, making advance payments and commissioning expert reports.
“Everything has already happened here,” said Göbel, joining the project will end up delaying it.
If the project should be canceled contrary to expectations, the district bears 100 percent of the costs for the expert opinion and even shoulders further planning costs of the individual communities at 50 percent.
If everything goes smoothly and the project runs successfully, the communities, as future operators, will bear the planning costs themselves.