"It's all happening too fast for me": The municipal council is under pressure because of PV systems

Created: 09/25/2022, 19:12

By: Andrea Kästle

A PV open space system is to be built on the former strawberry field on the border to Ebenhausen.

© Andrea Kästle

One is standing, the next is planned.

The Ickinger municipal council is now debating a third PV system.

However, several municipal councils were simply overwhelmed.

Icking – Icking already has a photovoltaic ground-mounted system, in Walchstadt.

A second in Attenhausen on the Autobahn is planned.

Another property owner has now approached the community.

He offers an area on the border to Ebenhausen, between the parking bay and the S-Bahn, to generate green energy where there used to be a strawberry field.

"It's all going too fast for me": Ickinger municipal council under pressure

On Monday, the topic was on the agenda of the Ickinger municipal council.

The pros and cons of the project in such a visible place were not discussed.

The committee was primarily concerned with formulating criteria that a property must meet if it is to be considered for a PV system.

First, it was decided to set up the list of criteria that Mayor Verena Reithmann (UBI) had prepared.

But then more and more dissatisfaction with the discussion arose, so that the whole thing was finally adjourned.

Some councilors simply felt overwhelmed.

High requirements for photovoltaics: could scare off property owners

Vigdis Nipperdey (Ickinger Initiative) said: "It's all going too fast for me." The Greens found it counterproductive to scare off potential property owners with conditions that were too high.

A lot of things, such as the question of whether panels glare at one point, would be clarified during the land use planning anyway.

"Stomach ache because of the location": Councilwoman doubts the location

The fact that a PV system on the former strawberry field triggers mixed feelings was only mentioned twice.

Ursula Loth (PWG) said: "We also want to equip roofs with photovoltaics, I am definitely in favor of an upper limit for open-space systems".

Tenor: You can't mirror the whole landscape.

And Claudia Roederstein (UBI) said: "I have a stomach ache because of the location, do we really have to use every area come hell or high water?"

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Energy turnaround in Icking: A lot accomplished and a lot ahead

In the meantime, it is clear that Icking must also do something to get the energy transition under way - and has already done a lot.

As reported, an energy cooperative was founded just last week, which wants to encourage and sometimes even address homeowners to convert their own property to generate electricity.

In addition, the legislator stipulates that municipalities must provide two percent of their area for wind energy.

It may well be that another target of up to 1.5 percent for PV systems will come.

Project manager of the PV system: "Incredible change" took place in Icking

Florian Schönberger from the Vispiron Group, who would build the plant on the strawberry field for the property owner and had come to the meeting, said afterwards: A “mad change” had already taken place in Icking.

Three years ago, there was some resistance to the virtually invisible system in Walchstadt, which he also designed and which went into operation in the spring.

Icking: Theoretically ready for full power supply via photovoltaics

At least that's what was discussed in the meeting: In theory, Icking is willing to generate the 38 million kilowatt hours of electricity that Icking will need each year in the future using PV systems.

Walchstadt and Attenhausen together are on the plan with 6.5 million kilowatt hours, the strawberry field with 4.59 hectares would generate another 4.5 million kilowatt hours.

The requirement proposed by the administration that open spaces should not border on residential or commercial areas was not found to be good.

You can read the latest news from Icking here.

Disgruntled municipal council "under pressure": Complaints to Mayor Reithmann from within the ranks

The atmosphere during the discussion was increasingly irritable, and those involved felt overwhelmed.

Reithmann, who, as she said, wanted to ask her committee's opinion for the town meetings in Dorfen and Icking this week, also faced headwind from within her own ranks.

Laura von Beckerath-Leismüller (Greens) said: "I don't think it's okay that we're being put under so much pressure."

New system should be used for charging station for e-cars and cold store

By the way: If the plant were to be built at the strawberry field, according to Schönberger, a "sales source" for the electricity would also be created.

A fast charging station for cars would be built, and possibly also a cold store.

Sheep could graze between the panels.

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