The first two turbines in the Schiederhof wind farm have been in place since 2019, and when a third wind turbine went into operation right next to it at the end of 2022, Prime Minister Markus Söder, Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger and Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber also came to Wiesenfelden in Lower Bavaria to give wind energy a great future in Bavaria to predict. The free state’s own large-scale project with 40 systems in the state forest near Altötting has now come to a standstill after Mehring’s negative referendum, but the landowner of Wiesenfelden is just getting started: the House of Thurn and Taxis, the largest private forest owner in Germany, wants to move into its extensive Further wind turbines could be built in the forests north of the Danube between Regensburg and Wiesenfelden – in an area of 150 square kilometers there would be space for up to 55 turbines, at least in purely mathematical terms.
Regensburg: Thurn und Taxis makes wind – Bavaria
