Last updated: 16.01.2024, 08:03 a.m.
By: Nicole Kalenda
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Wind turbines are now more complex to implement in Planegger Holz. © Nicolas Armer/dpa
Planegg, Gauting and Krailling have come away empty-handed when it comes to designating priority areas for wind power. Above all, this endangers the Planegg project to enable wind turbines on the Dickwiese together with Germering.
Planegg – Planegg's wind power plans have been put on hold. The areas suitable as locations on the A 96 in the west and on the municipal border with Neuried in the east have not made it into the list of priority areas that the Munich Regional Planning Association (RPV) has now presented in the preliminary draft of its wind energy control concept. This makes implementation much more complex. "We will discuss with all partners whether we will go through with this anyway," says Mayor Hermann Nafziger.
Last spring, a site analysis carried out by the Ebersberg-Munich Energy Agency on behalf of the municipality showed potential areas for two wind turbines each in the Kasten forest and at the southern end of the Dickwiese in Planegger Holz. A third wind turbine would be conceivable north of the Dickwiese on the Germeringer Flur. Initially, the municipality continued to pursue the site at the Dickwiese and held talks with the city of Germering in order to jointly create conditions for wind power. "We had already provided ourselves with sample contracts," says Nafziger. Now the situation needs to be reassessed. This is expected to happen at the end of the month at a meeting with representatives of the neighboring municipality.
Less secure and protracted
It is more uncertain and time-consuming to create building rights for wind energy with municipal planning. Nafziger: "It's much more strenuous for us. The land use plan must be amended and a development plan drawn up. Do you seriously think investors will stick around? They're leaving us hanging."
Marc Wißmann, Managing Director of the Munich Regional Planning Association, does not question the possible suitability of the Planegg areas. However, he says: "We have much more potential than we are supposed to show. That's why we only chose more suitable areas such as Forstenrieder Park as a priority area." In priority areas, wind turbines are permitted on a privileged basis. Wißmann continues: "I think it's better to concentrate on a few larger areas. In addition, municipalities do not have to designate any areas."
In the south of the association's territory, large structures with a distance of at least 15 kilometres have been designated. These include the Forstenrieder Park on Neurieder and unincorporated territory. "It is relatively likely that a larger wind farm will be built in the Forstenrieder Park," says Wißmann. As reported, the ARGE Windenergie Forstenrieder Park, which includes Neuried as well as the municipalities of Baierbrunn, Pullach and Schäftlarn, is planning to erect six wind turbines there. The Planegger Holz is located within the 15-kilometre radius and therefore too close.
RPV members are involved in advance
Last Thursday, the planning committee of the RPV unanimously approved the preliminary draft for the control concept with the 22 priority areas. In a next step, an informal preliminary participation of the RPV members will take place. Like all municipalities in the area of the association, this also includes the municipality of Planegg. "We will take advantage of the participation," says Nafziger. "We are required to ensure that communities become self-sufficient and CO2-neutral. Without wind power, I don't see a chance. I don't need to do any energy planning."
The area south of Buchendorf, where the municipality of Gauting wants to allow four wind turbines, and the Kreuzlingen Forest, where Krailling is planning wind turbines, are also not among the priority areas. However, within the framework of the land use plan for wind power, which the district of Starnberg drew up about ten years ago, these are concentration areas. "We have carried out a complete building law procedure in the area," says Krailling's mayor Rudolph Haux. The non-designation as a priority area by the Munich Regional Planning Association "only affects us peripherally".
By the end of 2027 at the latest, the RPV must have designated at least 1.1 percent of its regional area as a wind energy area in accordance with the Wind Energy Requirements Area Act (WindBG). That's just under 61 square kilometers. Now it has earmarked an area of almost 127 square kilometres as priority areas, which corresponds to 2.3 per cent of the region's area.