As of: February 17, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Hans Moritz
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Hans Moritz, editorial director of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger.
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The energy transition in Erdinger Land is not making any real progress.
On the one hand, this is due to the communities.
But the company that was founded specifically for this purpose isn't really pulling its weight either, criticizes editorial director Hans Moritz in his comment on the weekend.
Local politics in Erdinger Land is currently causing the local energy transition to fail spectacularly.
Failure has several fathers.
The energy version, a company owned by the district and its communities, is intended to raise, bundle and make the potential of renewable energies ready for implementation.
Now one community after another is leaving, most recently Buch am Buchrain.
However, individual solutions will never be as efficient as a coordinated approach across municipal boundaries.
But parochial thinking dominates, which is manifested in statements like “We don’t have any space, so we don’t need to participate.”
But EVE also contributes to its own loss of meaning.
One of its managing directors is the mayor of Wartenberg, Christian Pröbst.
So far he has not been seen as a fighter for the energy transition; his radius of influence does not extend beyond his home community.
He should have visited the communities and promoted the - good - cause, just as those responsible for the nursing crisis service once did with amazing (and ultimately successful) commitment.
What the astonished Bavaria is currently experiencing in the Altöttinger Forest with the failed wind farm for the chemical triangle also threatens Erding.
The mayors forbade interference in their municipal sovereignty when the district council Greens wanted to enforce green space and solar space registers at the district level.
But then they also have to deliver – and, please, more than just a PV system on a kindergarten or school roof.
The urgently needed energy transition does not stop at the town sign.
And so in the end, the Erdinger communities can also bear some of the blame if electricity in Bavaria becomes more expensive than in the rest of the republic.
Green electricity is often available in abundance in the north.
Because too little energy is generated here and there are no lines to the south - the CSU and Free Voters have torpedoed them for years - wind turbines on the coast have to be stopped because there is too much electricity.
Precisely because of this and because the EU is breathing down Germany's neck, there is a risk of a division into electricity zones - to the detriment of the south.
The industry will clearly feel the effects of this - and this time not because of the traffic lights.
If Erdinger Land continues to do nothing, it risks losing control of the establishment of wind turbines.
Investors will soon be able to buy into the countryside and build wind turbines using a privileged process.
However, despite all resistance, communities and districts should actively shape the energy transition and not become driven by it.
Or they lose legitimacy.
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