A couple of years ago, the ESWE folks (the electrical company of my region in Wiesbaden) did a survey for planting a wind-generator 'farm'. The results were....the best location was a hill region between Wiesbaden and Taunsstein (north of the city....about five miles from Wiesbaden itself).
It's safe to say that as you leave the city limits of Wiesbaden.....the elevation changes and you are climbing a pretty decent 'hill'.
What ESWE wanted....was a 'farm' of about ten windmills about halfway up the 'hill'.
All of this got dragged into court, with the anti-windmill folks of the region. For a year, this got discussed.
Yesterday, it concluded at the court.....they gave permission for ESWE to build the 'farm'.
HR (public TV for the region) did a decent job of telling the story.
The ten windmills? They will stand around 207 meters tall (680 ft).
The general problem with this discussion is that the same people who were hyped up thirty years ago to dismantle nuclear energy.....are the same people fighting the establishment of the wind-generators. Various environmental issues have been drawn up on why you can't build the wind-generator farms. If you were building solar panel farms? The same type debate would occur there.
The end of this discussion, or the construction woes? I doubt it.
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