The Landesverein für Heimatpflege has formally revised its extremely critical attitude towards wind energy in Bavaria in recent years and has also moved away from the 10-H regulation for new wind turbines that has been required for years. The state association has now fixed this change, which has been indicated for some time, in its new position paper on the expansion of renewable energies, which it published this week. They say they are “in favor of a conversion of energy production that follows clear rules,” says the club’s chairman and CSU politician Olaf Heinrich, who is also the mayor of Freyung and president of the Lower Bavarian district council. However, the definition of rigid area specifications for wind energy, as planned by the federal government, is “neither sensible nor appropriate”.
In its position paper, the state association advocates the expansion of renewable energies, even if this “further accelerates the processes of change that have been going on in Bavaria for decades and will fundamentally change the appearance of the environment”. As a home caretaker, you are by no means fundamentally opposed to necessary changes and adjustments. However, it is important to find the best locations for the individual forms of energy and to take cultural concerns into account as far as possible, according to a statement from the state association on Wednesday. More flexible approval planning is needed for wind turbines and for all regions of Bavaria “a state and regional plan that analyzes the area potential in the expansion of renewable energies properly and comprehensibly”.
At the same time, the organized home caretakers emphatically believe that “in the energy transition, there is still far too little talk about energy efficiency and energy savings”. According to the association founded in 1902, an important instrument is the preservation of existing building fabric. “Significantly more than half of the waste still consists of building rubble,” explains Heinrich. “If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we have to build differently: rebuild instead of tearing down and building new.”