From dark green to red: Freising relies on the sun for the energy transition
Created: 01/14/2022, 03:00 p.m
By: Andreas Beschorner
Head of the study project: Professor Markus Reinke and students analyze the situation in the district of Freising with regard to areas suitable for PV systems.
He presented the concept at the digital mayoral service meeting.
© Screenshot: Beschorner
The district of Freising relies on the sun for the energy transition.
A study project should now clarify where PV systems make the most sense.
Freising
– While Minister Robert Habeck from Berlin is trying to overturn the 10H regulation for wind turbines in Bavaria, the course is being set in the district of Freising for a massive expansion of open-space photovoltaic systems in order to achieve the energy transition.
A study project by the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, which was presented at the mayor's meeting on Thursday, is intended to provide an initial and important basis for where such PV systems could be installed at all.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
District administrator wants to determine the potential
District Administrator Helmut Petz emphasized that open-space PV systems are needed for the energy transition. And because there are applications from municipalities in the south of the district and the city of Freising, with which such PV systems are to be set up in a landscape protection area, it is first necessary to determine the potential in order to then decide whether you need areas in the landscape protection area at all . Such an analysis, for which the order was recently awarded, would take two years. And so, according to Petz, the suggestion by HSWT professor Markus Reinke at the end of 2021 was just the right thing to do, who wants to carry out a study project with around 30 students by July 2022, which is about exactly which areas in the district are available for open spaces -PV systems are suitable from a nature conservation point of view - and which are not.
Students should benefit as much as the district
At the end of the project with students in the sixth semester of landscape architecture, there will be an area-accurate, digital, GIS-supported map that is divided into four categories: There will be dark green areas on which PV systems even have added value from the point of view of nature conservation then there will be light green areas where there is nothing to prevent the installation of PV systems from a nature conservation point of view, then there will be yellow areas where no serious problems can be identified with the installation of ground-mounted systems to generate electricity, and then it will be red Specify areas where there are "important reasons for exclusion" for PV systems. What Petz described as a "double win" situation, because both students and the district benefited fromshould then ideally undergo a professional GIS technical preparation, suggested Reinke.