Saturday, November 27th, 2021
With a view of Bavaria
Habeck: The distances between the wind turbines could tip
Robert Habeck takes over the new super ministry for economy and climate and is in the process of making the first announcements. In the direction of Bavaria, the Green politician indicates that he is critical of the “privileged” minimum distances between wind turbines and residential buildings in the Free State.
The future climate protection minister Robert Habeck wants to overturn the large minimum distances between wind turbines and houses in Bavaria. Habeck referred in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” to the stipulation in the coalition agreement that renewable energies should be “in the public interest” in the future. “They are privileged with that,” said the Green politician. “And in Bavaria that can mean that the very high prescribed distances between wind turbines and residential areas become ineffective.”
If there is a public interest, “such prevention planning is not allowed,” said Habeck. In Bavaria, there is a minimum distance of ten times the height of the respective system between wind turbines and residential buildings, which usually corresponds to around two kilometers.
Habeck said that the planned privilege of renewable energies could also have consequences in his home country Schleswig-Holstein. This could lead to “old systems being allowed to be replaced by new ones in more places than previously planned”. At the same time, the Green politician emphasized that he did not want to “prescribe new rules for the expansion of renewable energies” from above, but rather to talk to the countries: “We will only be able to survive this great transformation as a society.”
This week the Greens appointed their ministers for the future traffic light coalition. Party chairman Robert Habeck gets the new super ministry, which the coalition agreement provides for the areas of economy and climate and green aegis. He will also be Vice Chancellor under what will probably be the next Federal Chancellor, Olaf Scholz.