"It will hurt, also visually": Eurasburg has created guidelines for PV ground-mounted systems
Created: 01/13/2023, 09:00
By: Rudi Stallein
Electricity from solar energy: In the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - like here in the municipality of Icking - there are more and more open-space PV systems.
The municipality of Eurasburg has now developed a guide.
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The municipality of Eurasburg wants to expand the use of renewable energy.
It has drawn up a catalog of criteria for ground-mounted PV systems.
Eurasburg – Photovoltaic systems have long been a familiar sight in Eurasburg with its 51 districts.
In view of the approaching phasing out of nuclear energy and at the same time a significant increase in the demand for electricity over the next few years, the municipality is working more intensively on the establishment of larger plants for the generation of renewable energies.
The municipality has now drawn up a list of criteria for this.
"It will hurt, also visually": Eurasburg has created guidelines for PV ground-mounted systems
The community wants to push the expansion of photovoltaic ground-mounted systems in order to become energy self-sufficient in the coming years - also because it is not to be expected that wind turbines will spring up in the fields between Achmühle and Faistenberg in the near future.
This should be the case by 2035 at the latest, as Greens councilor Klaus Koch reaffirmed in the municipal council meeting before the Christmas break.
At the meeting, the municipal council approved a guideline drawn up by the administration in order to be able to provide potential buyers with a few key data.
"First of all, this is a guideline that we work our way along within the administration when a prospective customer approaches the municipality," said Joseph Wodak, head of the building authority, ahead of the discussion.
Changes are needed, they will hurt us, also visually.
Klaus Koch (Greens)
There wasn't much to discuss.
The contents of the six-page draft were well known to the members of the committee, who had been commissioned by the administration last spring to develop corresponding criteria.
It contains recommendations for site selection, for example, and also where open space systems are not permitted, for example in the vicinity of listed buildings or buildings that have a particularly positive impact or in “valuable parts of the landscape that are visible from afar, characterize the landscape and parts of the landscape that serve local recreation”.
Klaus Koch (Greens) made it clear: "Changes are needed, they will hurt us, also visually." Green parliamentary group spokesman Jakob Koch added: "But we won't get around it, and we won't get around wind power either."
Municipality of Eurasburg “has planning sovereignty at all times”
Only two points were criticized by the Green representatives.
The catalog of criteria limits (for reasons of compatibility) the increase in open spaces per calendar year to a “maximum of ten hectares”.
In addition, "an expansion of around 200 percent of the total electricity requirements of the municipality of Eurasburg is being sought." Klaus Koch explained that he was "against any form of limitation" and suggested formulating: "at least" 200 percent.
Wodak, who claims to have filtered out what suits Eurasburg from around 20 guidelines from other municipalities and federal states when drafting the ten-hectare limit, which Koch would like to have removed, put it into perspective: “If someone wants 15 hectares, then he should make that.
But ten times a hectare, that won't work.
But if we don't have the ten acres in there,
the guideline is no worse.” Especially since, as Peter Goepfert pointed out, the present document “is only a guideline, a recommendation.
And we will be discussing that again in a year, because so much is changing.”
The head of the town hall is certain that the topic will keep the community busy "often".
It is important that "regardless of how we decide, it always goes through this committee," affirmed Jakob Koch, which is summarized in the guideline under point eight: "The municipality has planning authority for the urban development of the municipal area at all times." Development with photovoltaic open space systems will never create a precedent, "since each location is specific and is evaluated separately by the municipal council".
Mayor Moritz Sappl (free voters) had the final word: "The topic will keep us busy in the near future." (rst)
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