Source: Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy , November 16 2022
The Bavarian state parliament has passed a partial relaxation of the 10H rule. The rule changes came into force on November 16, 2022.
The relaxation of the 10H rule means that, for example, in forests, near industrial estates, along highways, railroad lines and wind priority and reservation areas, the distance of wind turbines to residential development is reduced to 1000 meters. In wind priority areas will be reduced from June 2023 even further to about 800 meters to residential development in accordance with the requirement of the Federal Immission Control Act.
According to current information, in Bavaria currently 34 new wind turbines with about 114 megawatts (MW) of power are approved and will go online promptly after completion. Another 25 turbines have been applied for but not yet approved. The Regional Wind Caretakers in the seven administrative districts, which the Minister of State had appointed in the fall of 2020, are currently in charge of nearly 70 projects with a total of about 200 wind turbines .
Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Hubert Aiwanger: "We are now providing budget funds to build up 100 personnel positions in the next year, especially at the district governments, so that wind projects in particular will be approved more quickly. A total of 59 plants are already in the pipeline, and another 200 will follow. Almost every day, companies are now contacting the state to set up wind turbines to supply themselves with renewable energy. Bavaria is turning on the wind turbine and will soon be producing a great deal of wind power with the new, more powerful high-tech turbines, despite comparatively weak wind conditions. A modern wind turbine brings computationally river for 10,000 humans."
With the development Bavaria continues the way to more renewable energy consistently. Bavaria is already the nationwide leader in solar, biomass and hydropower and also wants to catch up massively in wind. In the storage of surplus renewable energy, strong emphasis is being placed on hydrogen. So that wind power no longer has to be switched off in many regions of Germany because the grids can no longer absorb anything, the expansion of wind and photovoltaics must therefore be thought of together with electrolysers and hydrogen production.
The full press release can be found here.
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