At the end of July, the Greens in Haar submitted two motions for climate protection: The town hall should take up old considerations about wind power locations and see where geothermal wells could be drilled. That’s all reasonable. But why didn’t the town hall take action long ago? Other municipalities are much, much further – also because the district and the Ebersberg-Munich Energy Agency are doing a good job with the “Implementation Program++”.
The program with the boring name is well known to the Greens in Haar. It is not entirely clear to the Greens themselves whether the town hall took note of this. The offer to create facts together with other municipalities on the basis of data sets on the crucial energy issues has therefore not yet been taken up. In Aschheim and Taufkirchen, for example, there has long been talk of specific plots of land for wind turbines. They know if ground-mounted photovoltaics is an option and where. And the potential of a geothermal supply has been sounded out here and there or has been used for a long time anyway. Aschheim operates a geothermal power plant with Feldkirchen and Kirchheim.
Hair used to be everywhere. But in 2015, plans for wind concentration areas ended up in the wastepaper basket because the 10-H rule would have prevented everything anyway. Geothermal energy was also an issue until it was abandoned due to the high costs. That is past. But now the church is really late. Others made far-sighted plans a few years ago, such as Vaterstetten, which set up a district heating network and is now investing in geothermal energy. Haar only recently figured out that you could hook up there. Or should you drill yourself, as the Greens are now proposing? So far, Haar has no plan and would therefore be a candidate for the next round of the “Implementation Program++”. All 16 municipalities that have not yet taken part or have not yet decided to do so should get involved.