Looking for potential in the district of Landsberg

Created: 07/07/2022, 16:09

By: Dirk Walter, Susanne Greiner

The four Fuchstal wind turbines in the state forest above Welden are the "second ensemble" in the Landsberg district.

Two wind turbines have been at Denklingen for over a decade.

© Jais

County – The Wind On Land Act has been passed.

By the end of 2027, 1.1 percent of the state area in Bavaria must be designated for wind energy, and by the end of 2032 it should be 1.8 percent.

This also applies to the district of Landsberg.

Here, too, the responsible regional planning association (RPV) in Munich is examining potential locations that can be identified as priority areas for wind energy.

RPV Managing Director Christian Breu informs that it is far from being a matter of specifying exactly how many wind turbines will be located where.

"It is not planned for each district either, it is about joint regional planning." 1.1 percent of the total area of ​​the region is 61 square kilometers or 6,051 hectares;

1.8 percent then 99 square kilometers.

Breu expects that 400 new wind turbines could be built - provided investors can be found.

At the moment there are only about two dozen wind turbines in the entire RPV area, six of them in the southern district of Landsberg: four wind turbines in the state forest near Fuchstal and two that a private company installed near Denklingen around 15 years ago.

Three more wind turbines will be built in the Leeder community forest.

The previous 10H rule no longer applies to other possible wind turbines.

A minimum distance of 1,000 meters to the nearest residential area is sufficient.

Since the 1.1 percent requirement cannot be broken down uniformly across the individual districts – according to Breu, this is not possible for the city of Munich, for example – other districts would have to take on more.

Breu is convinced that finding space in the Munich planning region shouldn't be a problem.

The wind speed and site quality are such that basically all sub-areas are eligible for designation.

It is already clear that around three quarters of the areas to be designated are in the forest area.

Precise agreements with agriculture and forestry are certainly necessary.

And nature conservationists would not always be enthusiastic either, Breu suspects.

"We have to be honest about that."