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Johannecker wind turbine provides electricity for 1800 people

2022-08-09T10:08:16.911Z


Johannecker wind turbine provides electricity for 1800 people Created: 08/09/2022, 12:00 p.m The Erdinger FW delegation was impressed by the wind turbine (from left): Monika Schmid (2nd chairwoman), Christian Pompl, chairman Benedikt Hoigt, Svetlana Kulesa, operator Thomas Gasteiger, FW treasurer Bernhard Lorenz, MdL Benno Zierer, Petra Bauernfeind and Toni Zierer . © FKN Thomas Gasteiger recei


Johannecker wind turbine provides electricity for 1800 people

Created: 08/09/2022, 12:00 p.m

The Erdinger FW delegation was impressed by the wind turbine (from left): Monika Schmid (2nd chairwoman), Christian Pompl, chairman Benedikt Hoigt, Svetlana Kulesa, operator Thomas Gasteiger, FW treasurer Bernhard Lorenz, MdL Benno Zierer, Petra Bauernfeind and Toni Zierer .

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Thomas Gasteiger received guests in Johanneck who wanted to get first-hand information about his wind turbine.

Johanneck –

The noise under the windmill is so deafening that every conversation breaks off.

Then the helicopter flying over is gone and the roaring engine noise gives way to an annoying constant roar.

Only when one of the rare gaps in traffic opens up on the nearby A9 can you finally hear the rhythmic flop...flop...flop of the wings rotating around the gondola installed at a height of 138 meters.

The rotor blades stretch another 41 meters in the air.

The Johanneck wind turbine supplies around 1,800 residents with electricity – more than live in the municipality of Paunzhausen, where it has been since October 2013.

And according to Horst Seehofer it shouldn't stand at all.

"There is no distance rule for a motorway, but there is for wind turbines," says the owner of the "Johanneck" wind turbine, Thomas Gasteiger, in amazement.

Through the mediation of the FW member of parliament Benno Zierer from the district of Freising, the Freie Wahler Erding were able to find out more about the system as part of their series of events on the subject of energy and even visit the interior.

If the 10H rule had come into force a year earlier than November 2014, all of Gasteiger's plans would have been in vain.

The village of Johanneck is on the other side of the A9, but only one kilometer away.

When Gasteiger made his four-million project public, he reaped a lot of – sometimes very serious – resistance, as he told the guests.

Since then, things have calmed down a bit, as Gasteiger says.

However, skepticism about wind turbines persisted throughout Bavaria.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

Gasteiger is happy to take part in the discussion as long as no absurd claims are made that cannot be supported by factual arguments.

A popular claim: there is not enough wind in Bavaria.

That's only true at first glance, says Gasteiger.

That is correct on the flat, but his wind turbine on a hill produces the same yield as one of comparable size in northern Germany.

His wind turbine is practically the Methuselah among the systems.

Vertical Wind Turbines

The wind turbines are constantly being optimized to increase efficiency.

According to Gasteiger, vertical wind turbines have not proven themselves on a large scale.

Their efficiency is too low, and they don't work in weak winds.

His system is practically always running.

The emergency shutdown at 150 km/h wind speed has never had to take effect.

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bird strike

Another keyword: bird strike.

On the one hand, according to Gasteiger, there are not masses of animal carcasses lying under his windmill.

On the other hand, promising solutions are being sought.

Zierer confirms: The Technical University of Munich has developed a camera that captures birds and shuts down the system.

In any case, Gasteiger considers the argument to be an exaggeration: If the entire potential of renewable energies were not used, there would be no need to worry about dead birds in the foreseeable future.

"Then," says Gasteiger, "because of climate change, the animals will be so fried that quite a few species will die out anyway."

forest sites

Large-scale deforestation at forest locations is also not necessary, explains Gasteiger.

The footprint is small.

Only the access road for transporting the heavy and large parts - a wing alone weighs 18 tons, the nacelle 135 tons, the tower without foundation 1800 tons - usually requires a corresponding temporary expansion.

And how sustainable is a wind turbine itself?

Here, too, Gasteiger gives the all-clear.

The energy used to build the tower, which is mainly made of steel and concrete, is compensated for in a quarter of a year.

And no problematic substances are used for power generation either.

The technique is very trivial.

The rotor blades drive the generator – it works in a very similar way to a bicycle dynamo.

20 minutes climb

The dimensions of this "small" wind turbine can only be guessed at inside.

The material lift may not be used to transport people.

Like the technicians for the maintenance of the system, Gasteiger has to use the narrow ladder to get to the top, secured with a climbing harness.

Gasteiger needs about 20 minutes for the ascent, including short breaks on small intermediate platforms.

Since the tower tapers towards the top, you always climb an overhang.

However, according to Gasteiger, the view from the inspection flap compensates for the exertion.

The view extends well beyond the A9...  

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You can find more current news from the district of Freising at Merkur.de/Freising.

Source: merkur

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