New discussion at Kuckucksheim: Criticism of the biomass thermal power station

Created: 01/26/2022, 15:05

By: Peter Schiebel

In this area at the Kuckuckswald, the municipality of Wörthsee wants to build the biomass thermal power station, which will supply the church area, the cooperative housing and the supermarket with district heating.

There is now resistance to this.

© Andrea Jaksch

The municipality of Wörthsee is planning the construction of a biomass thermal power station at Kuckucksheim, which will primarily supply the housing project there, the church area and the supermarket with heat.

There is now resistance to this.

Steinebach – When Wörthsee's municipal councilors discuss the planned biomass thermal power station at Kuckucksheim in their meeting today (7 p.m., auditorium of the primary school), then some residents are likely to listen very carefully.

Doja Muggenthaler, Mudra Wurm and Dr.

Stephan Bleek from the Initiative for Biodiversity Wörthsee expressed clear criticism of the project in a press release on Monday evening.

"In the cuckoo forest, valuable old trees are to be felled again after the felling for the new supermarket," they write.

"It is not clear why a location in the recreational forest was sought for this combined heat and power plant and not in another area." In this way, another part of the forest would disappear in slices.

In addition, the citizens express general criticism of the power plant, which is said to be operated with wood chips.

There is talk of “ecological fraud” because the burning of wood releases a significant amount of CO2.

A heat pump heating system is really sustainable, emphasize the citizens, who were defeated in a referendum last year with their petition against the full-range supplier.

"We hope that this insight will prevail in our local council and that after a really good,

Mayor Christel Muggenthal cannot understand the criticism

Mayor Christel Muggenthal cannot understand the criticism and explains the current state of affairs in an interview with Starnberger Merkur. Four community-owned plots of land were examined for the construction of the power plant. An area at the cemetery is ruled out because there is a naturally grown forest floor there. If the planned children's home is built on, protests from parents are to be expected. A third plot of land is “in the middle of the prairie” and is out of the question, since central heating systems are not rated as privileged construction projects. So stay the area east of Etterschlager Straße and south of Zum Kuckuckswald street, where there is currently a road salt silo on a five by five meter concrete slab. Excavated material was stored in the area in the 1970s and 1980s,which is why the area is less valuable than others, said Muggenthal. Of course, trees would have to be felled there for the thermal power station, but: "The important trees will all remain."

Muggenthal also does not accept the criticism of the use of wood chips.

It had been planned from the start to initially operate the power plant with it.

As a result, the concept should then be expanded to include solar thermal energy, heat pumps and, if necessary, geothermal energy.

The mayor did not want to give any further details, but referred to the municipal council meeting today.

Then it comes to the preparation of the development plan and the change in the land use plan.

The session is public.

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