A village defends itself against wind power: Knautnaundorf threatens the storm!

A village defends itself against wind power: Knautnaundorf threatens the storm!

in Knautnaundorf, a district of Leipzig, the wind is economically high. But the plans for the construction of new wind turbines cause a lot of unrest among the residents. Dieter Keil, 76 years old and even living in Knautnaundorf, experienced a lot in his life, for example the loss of his home village of Eythra in the 1980s through the Zwenkau open -cast mine. Now he sees how his neighborhood has become the largest wind ranking area in Leipzig. An exciting, but also controversial change that heats the minds, like lvz.de reported.

The plans stipulate that three of a total of six planned wind power areas are built in Knautnaundorf. A whopping 150 of a total of 175 hectares of land are used. Many residents, including the more than 250 supporters of the citizens' initiative "Life -worthy Knautnaundorf", stand against the expansion of wind power. Daniel Köhler, a member of the initiative and at the same time service technician for offshore wind farms, is concerned about the effects that the new wind turbines could bring.

loads for the residents

The residents are already burdened by noise from the nearby A38 motorway, emissions of steel and hard casting and gravel mining. This is a combination that is worried. The more than 200 meter high chimney of the castworks is supplemented by the new wind turbines, which are said to be another 30 meters higher. Mayor Matthias Kopp (CDU) advocates that the approximately 500 inhabitants of Knautnaundorf have to tolerate a large part of the wind turbines in Leipzig, which meets with mixed resonance.

The AfD district councilor Marius Beyer, who criticizes the current distance regulation for wind turbines in Saxony, presents another conflict. Mayor Thomas Dienberg from the Greens, on the other hand, sees the necessity of wind turbine as essential. The city council has spoken in favor of expansion, but would like to comply with the distance regulations and reduce the number of new wind turbines.

changes in planning

the city of Leipzig is important to be supplied independently by renewable energies in the future. Even if there are already wind turbines in Knautnaundorf, there are efforts to change or even cancel old development plans to make room for additional solar systems and wind farms. According to [l-iz.de] (https://www.l-iz.de/politik/brennpunkt/2024/03/Me-windpower-aus-hartmannsdorf-knautnaundorf-b-plan-Aufhoben- 582549), a template was introduced to the city council. This is because the old one is still in the way of an increase in wind turbines and the legal situation has to be revised.

Overall, the planned expansion of wind energy have various bureaucratic hurdles in the way, which are also a well -known problem for other regions in Germany. The need to revise old regulations is also discussed by the Strom-report.com, whereby the expansion of wind turbines has been inhibited in recent years by complicated procedures. Nevertheless, wind energy in Germany seems to be gaining in importance, and with a share of 21% of the total investment volume in the area of ​​renewable energies, there is an increasing trend. It remains to be seen how the city of Leipzig deals with the challenges that arise from the expansion of wind turbines and whether Knautnaundorf can be a positive example of renewable energies in urban areas.