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The photovoltaic area that a farmer from Wolfersdorf wants to build is designed for 3.4 megawatts - including pasture operations.
But one hurdle may prove to be too high.
Graphic: Municipality of Wolfersdorf © Graphic: Municipality of Wolfersdorf
Harvesting electricity and letting sheep graze: This is what a Wolfersdorf farmer is planning with a photovoltaic project.
But the system seems to be failing.
Wolfersdorf
– Actually, everything seemed to be on the right track with the open-air photovoltaic system planned behind the building yard and the stock shooting hall.
The investor, a local farmer, who wants to build the 3.4 megawatt system in cooperation with the company Solea AG, presented his project to the local council in September last year.
They were convinced of the project and made a fundamental decision on this.
But not much has happened since then.
Hurdle: The next feed-in point is four kilometers away
As Mayor Anita Wölfle now explained to the committee, an additional decision is required to set up the so-called “Wolfersdorf open-space photovoltaic system special area”.
The main reason for this is that the project currently only has “an uneconomical feed-in tariff” from Bayernwerk Netz GmbH.
This is because the nearest feed-in point for the system is four kilometers away.
The recalculation of an entry point can only be carried out or applied for at Bayernwerk Netz GmbH if a corresponding installation decision has been made.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
The local council did not want to ignore this approach and made the necessary decision to set up the building without much discussion.
Wölfle made it clear that the decision would be invalid if the contractual partners did not agree.
As she told the FT, what was important to those involved was not the remuneration, but rather the feed-in commitment.
An agreement is possible, but currently not in sight.
More of a reservation than a fixed plan
Local councilor Matthias Reiser (WW) expressed doubts as to whether the project would still take place.
He immediately thought “that it couldn’t be connected,” said Reiser about the problem with the feed-in point being miles away.
Bayernwerk Netz GbmH will not build its own substation, Reiser speculated.
Wölfle agreed with him.
The applicants “will play it safe,” she suspected, adding that the first thing to do is to reserve something.
In other words, it remains to be seen whether the facility will actually be built.
The farmer has planned so-called agri-PV systems.
This means that grazing is possible underneath.
Another role in the short debate in the local council was that the surrounding field paths would not be affected.
They had to remain freely accessible and passable, it was said, which, according to Wölfle, should be the case.
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