Grasbrunn has only just done it, and Hohenbrunn recently too, and even beyond measure. All municipalities in the district of Munich are currently called upon to identify and designate concentration areas for the construction of wind turbines – but not all can or want to do this. And while Hohenbrunn has promised more than a fifth of its area for rotors, the community of Grünwald, for example, is still sending out the signal: Probably not with us. The Munich Regional Planning Association (RPV) will also deal with this in its meeting on Tuesday, March 7th, whose chairman, Oberhaching’s Mayor Stefan Schelle (CSU), only recently announced that up to 400 could or rather should be in the region wind turbines are built.
The RPV received a very clearly formulated mandate from the Free State of Bavaria, also under pressure from the Federal Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck from the Greens, under the on-shore wind law. According to the Bavarian state development program, it is intended that the planning regions will draw up corresponding sub-regional plans. The district belongs to planning region 14 – one of a total of 18 such regions in the Free State – which also includes the state capital Munich and the districts of Dachau, Ebersberg, Erding, Freising, Fürstenfeldbruck, Landsberg am Lech and Starnberg.
This planning will be based on the concentration areas determined by the municipalities themselves, on which rotors will be set up in the future. In the Munich district alone, this could be more than a hundred locations in the coming years. On the one hand, the district occupies around twelve percent of the total area of the planning region, and on the other hand, it has set itself ambitious goals: The district of Munich should achieve climate neutrality by 2040. “Not only does wind power play an important role, but also geothermal energy, solar systems and much more,” says Christoph Nadler, spokesman for the Greens in the Munich district council. “But wind power plays an important role.”
With so-called positive planning, the district wants to help those municipalities in particular that have previously had difficulties in designating areas for wind turbines or – such as the municipality of Ottobrunn – hardly have any free areas on which the distance rules that still apply in Bavaria can be complied with. This positive planning is supported by scientific expertise from the Technical University of Munich. For example, further areas in state forests could be examined, says Nadler; and communities that have so far refused will not get away either, according to the Greens parliamentary group leader; because wind turbines are considered privileged construction projects according to new legislation.
Ultimately, the task of the planning association will be to identify regional priority areas for wind turbines: According to the Wind-on-Land Act, this means in concrete terms that by the end of 2027 an area contribution value of 1.1 percent of the entire state area and by the year 2032 a value of 1. 8 percent.