Photovoltaic systems, wind farms or new high -voltage plants: If companies such as Energie AG or the transmission system operator APG implement new projects, you have to create compensation areas. The intervention in nature that is created by the project must be compensated for. Experts are usually necessary for this assessment, and the areas may have to be upgraded.
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The search for suitable areas is often difficult and delayed the whole project, said Environmental State Councilor Stefan Kaineder (Greens). There is a relatively unbureaucratic solution for the acceleration of the process, as a study commissioned by the environmental department shows that comes from environmental law professor Erika Wagner from Johannes Kepler University.
It should be understood as a guide for companies: Instead of the fact that every project advertiser has to search for their own space as before, this task could take on a private law association. This would buy suitable areas, upgrade and manage long -term. The club members – the projects acquiring companies – would bear the costs. You could also buy or buy the areas to the club.
A “win-win situation”
In practice, fewer individual areas, but large coherent areas would probably serve as a compensation area. That is a “win-win” situation, says Wagner: “At the moment everyone tries to find areas alone, that takes time. An area pool would also have a better quality”.
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Source: Nachrichten
