Talking Over Wind-Generators

 I was watching N-TV (German commercial news) this morning and there was this interesting wind-power story.

Around eight years ago in Bavaria...they made up this new rule about placement of wind-generators.  It's called '10-H'.  So to sum up 10-H....if you apply to build a wind-generator....for each meter of height....the placement has to be 10 meters from any residence.  

Typically, a wind-generator is about 90 meters tall (nearly the amount of the Statue of Liberty).....around 300 ft tall.  You do the math....a new generator then has to be 900 meters from a residence of any type.  That's around 2,950 feet, or one-third of the typical LONG runway for a airport.  

Yes, just over half-a-mile....more or less.  

How many generators were approved for placement in 2021?  Six.  

This being a problem for the new government, and it's pro-wind-generator ideas?  Well....yes.  They want the 10-H rule dumped.  

Odds of this happening?  If you went to any place in Bremen or Berlin, and announced that a placement was going to occur within 200 meters of the city or residence area....things would flip out.  Local folks would stage a 'fit'.  

I don't see Bavarians taking kindly to this federal encouragement.  

A pro-wind-generator engineer would tell you that studies have to be accomplished, and certain areas are just crappy for placement of the generators.  Hillsides are the better choice.  But finding a hillside to fit the 10-H rule....is fairly difficult.  When you do find that 'right-place'.....you might as well put up five or six in that half-a-kilometer area.  

All of this bickering getting the federal program anywhere?  I doubt it.  Making up a anti-10-H law?  They can attempt it but I would imagine a challenge to occur....even going to the EU court system, and the fed folks being told they can't make a law like this.

The only enticement you can offer Bavarians who flip the 10-H rule?  Free power.  Write down a simple contract....if you lessen 10-H to 5-H (five meters for each meter of height), we'd put up a wind-generator and for the life of the generator....we'd just give you all the free power you'd need.  That's the only way....I think.....to win this argument.  Beyond that....this is just a long no-win situation for the federal government.