Energy transition: Pöcking defines criteria for open-space photovoltaic systems
Created: 07/31/2022, 15:18
Ground-mounted photovoltaic systems are a building block of the energy transition (symbolic photo).
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
The municipality of Pöcking am Starnberger See defines criteria for open-space photovoltaic systems.
Behind this is a working group on climate protection.
Pöcking – The municipality of Pöcking would like to advance the energy transition and strengthen the expansion of renewable energies.
In addition, the municipal council passed a fundamental resolution for photovoltaic systems on suitable open spaces at its meeting on Thursday evening.
The climate protection working group has drawn up a catalog of eight criteria for the search for these areas that a suitable location for a photovoltaic system must meet.
Among other things, it is about the development, the value of the area for agriculture, the distance to a feed-in point for the generated energy and the effects on the landscape.
Mayor Rainer Schnitzler made it clear that according to the latest survey in Pöcking, only 6.6 percent of electricity consumption is generated from renewable energies (in 2020, for example, exclusively from solar energy).
A system for converting solar energy into electricity could cover an additional seven percent of electricity consumption on an area of around one hectare, i.e. more than double the current use of renewable energies.
On average, around 16 percent of the electricity in the district comes from renewable sources.
Municipal councilor Christoph von Gronau (Greens) called for not only greenfield areas to be considered.
In his opinion, mounting photovoltaic modules over parking lots is also an alternative.
It also creates shadows for the vehicles below.
The Greens municipal council criticized the excessive bureaucracy associated with the application for photovoltaic systems on private roof areas.
"It's all much easier in other countries," he summed up.
Stephan Müller-Wendlandt
