Lots of photovoltaic inquiries - but Olching would rather have wind power in the moss
Created: 01/12/2023 12:03 p.m
By: Kathrin Böhmer
A project developer wants to build an open-space PV system on Feldgedinger Straße in Graßlfinger Moos.
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In times of crisis, alternative energies are very popular: Investors are increasingly turning to free-field solar systems.
Municipalities have recently received many inquiries.
Olching – Something in this direction is also happening in Olching.
However, a location in the Graßlfinger Moos, which a project developer has leased, remains taboo - wind power and idyll come first here.
9.5 hectares
A project developer wants to set up an open-space photovoltaic system in the middle of the Graßlfinger Moos.
It is an area of around 9.5 hectares in the northeast of the city on Feldgedinger Straße, directly on the city limits of Bergkirchen.
According to the project developer, a long-term lease agreement was concluded.
The facility is to be somewhat smaller than, for example, the one on Roggensteiner Strasse near Puchheim.
So far, however, it does not look as if a new "electricity factory" could be built here.
The Olchinger urban development committee rejected the project unanimously.
The building authority considers the area unsuitable for several reasons.
At Bergkirchen
It contradicts the catalog of criteria that the city has imposed on itself with regard to the construction of photovoltaic systems.
One of the arguments: A wind turbine could be built on the border to Bergkirchen, which was also discussed earlier.
"It is the only possible location in Olching," explains the head of the building authority, Markus Brunnhuber, when asked by the daily newspaper.
This is shown in the district-wide partial land use plan (in addition to purely agricultural use).
However, the procedure was discontinued.
Solar and wind power are not mutually exclusive
Incidentally, the fact that wind power and sun are not permitted in pairs has been a thing of the past since last October.
Bavaria's Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (free voters) campaigned for this.
He announced that open-space photovoltaic systems could also be set up in priority areas for wind energy use in Bavaria in the future.
A case in Middle Franconia was decisive.
Result: It makes perfect sense to also use the area under the wind turbine to generate electricity.
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According to the head of the building authority, Brunnhuber, things are different in Olching.
In their own catalog of criteria, it was agreed that an area for wind power was a reason for excluding photovoltaics.
But it is not the only argument.
"There are simply much more suitable areas than this," says Brunnhuber.
The same goes for the landscape.
In other words: the rural idyll.
The so-called important green corridor is protected by the regional plan.
The Ascherbach
So far there has been no "disturbing factor" at the site in the Graßlfinger Moos on the former hazelnut plantation and the adjacent agricultural areas.
Opposite there are also several (fish) ponds and the Ascherbach.
Basically, according to Brunnhuber, preference is given to areas that already have such disruptive factors, such as proximity to the motorway or road.
This is the case, for example, with the system on the small Olchinger See, where a local operator is building a solar field.
The area is close to the railway tracks.
Here was the green light.
When asked, the head of the building authority, Brunnhuber, also said that there was a real gold rush in terms of solar energy.
"Now it's slowing down a bit." Nevertheless, you have to be careful that the locations still make sense.
It also remains to be seen what the wind energy planning will bring as a result of the Wind-on-Land Act.
This should speed up the expansion.
It comes into force in February.
Planning is currently underway at state and regional level.
You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.
