Progress in the Königsdorf PV mammoth project: The municipal council spoke out in favour of the change in land use and the development plan (symbolic photo) © AmazingNature Alpha
Königsdorf - The municipality of Königsdorf is focusing on environmental protection in an exemplary manner: with a photovoltaic (PV) ground-mounted system, in which the renaturation and rewetting of former moorland areas will be part of the project, according to the plan.
The project application for the large-scale ground-mounted PV plant project in Königsdorf is approved. The decision in principle for an amendment to the land use plan and the preparation of a project-related development plan has been unanimously sealed. The solar park is expected to cost 16 million.
Before the approval, however, Deputy Mayor Sebastian Seidl (CSU) in the Königsdorf municipal council once again summed up what is important for the municipality. "We are doing our part for the energy transition, the proposed plant is almost invisible and we are not spoiling any landscape." The committee particularly likes the actors involved. In addition to 17er Oberlandenergie, ESB Energie Südbayern and the Bosch family as lessors, the municipality is also involved. And that both as a partner and as a headquarters.
20-hectare solar park in Königsdorf costs 16 million euros
Thus, everything that is currently hotly debated in other municipalities would be fulfilled and greater acceptance would be created among the citizens. Renewable energy is to be generated on 20 hectares and 8,000 tonnes of CO2 are to be bound at the same time.
In the future, the largest solar park to date is to be built on land belonging to the Mooseurach estate. "It's an ideal place," says Seidl. Because everything there is wooded and does not bother anyone. He also thinks it's good that only "one" large PV system is planned for everyone in the village, which prevents many smaller systems from being spread over the landscape.
The plant is expected to feed 22 million kilowatt hours per year into the local Königsdorf power grid
"What I find positive" is that the community can supply itself with more than self-sufficient electricity, Seidl further emphasized. The plant is expected to feed 22 million kilowatt hours per year into the local power grid. According to the feasibility study of the project partners, 261 percent of the municipality's own needs would be covered. Furthermore, it should be emphasized that in a large-scale project, such as the one to be built in Königsdorf, only one connection to the feed-in point is necessary.
Municipal council unanimously approves decision - "Now we can start with the work"
After the decision was unanimously approved by the municipal council, Adolf Hornsteiner, spokesman for Energie-Südbayern, said: "Now we can start with the work." Since the project had already been presented to the committee at a separate press conference on the Friday before, the decision was quickly off the table. However, Seidl said that the next step could take time. "All correspondence will now be given to the specialist authorities."
