Wind energy in Upper Austria
This article provides an overview of the expansion of wind energy and the installed wind turbines in the state of Upper Austria .
Expansion and framework conditions for wind energy in Upper Austria
Annual expansion and total output | ||||
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year | MW | |||
1996 | + | 2.80|||
2.8 | ||||
1997 | + | 0|||
2.8 | ||||
1998 | + | 1.20|||
4.0 | ||||
1999 | + | 3.30|||
7.3 | ||||
2000 | + | 0|||
7.3 | ||||
2001 | + | 1.30|||
8.6 | ||||
2002 | + | 2.00}|||
10.6 | ||||
2003 | + | 3.80|||
14.4 | ||||
2004 | + | 0|||
14.4 | ||||
2005 | +12.00 | |||
26.4 | ||||
2006 −13 |
+ | 0|||
26.4 | ||||
2014 | +15.00 | |||
41.4 | ||||
2015 | + | 0|||
41.4 | ||||
In Upper Austria, two of Austria's first larger plants went into operation in 1996, at the time the state was a technological leader. In the later 2000s, no more wind power plants were built, and the state is now in the lower mid-range of expansion. It wasn't until 2014 that five systems went online again.
There are (as of the beginning of 2016) 11 wind farms and individual larger wind turbines, with a total of 28 systems. They have a total nominal output of around 40 MW and an annual electricity generation of around 72 gigawatt hours in operation, which corresponds to a smaller run-of-river power plant such as on Enns or Traun or one of the large eastern Austrian wind farms.
The realizable potential for Upper Austria over the entire area is only about 10% of that of Burgenland , so that overall wind power plays a comparatively minor role here. The annual mean wind speed in the more exposed hill locations is only 5-6 m / s, only occasionally in the peaks of Hausruck and Böhmerwald 6–7 m / s (as in the area between Neusiedlersee and Weinviertel across the board), i.e. at the limit of economic efficiency.
A specialty in Upper Austria are the forest wind power plants, which are located on relatively high towers in the middle of the forest on low mountain ridges , and have a comparatively low landscape consumption, such as the 100 m tower on Steiglberg in Kobernaußerwald, the 105 m Sternwald in the Mühlviertel, and the 5,140 m towers near Munderfing in the Kobernaußerwald. There are also several planned locations in the colline and montane forest . Plains like in Eastern Austria are hardly used. The more alpine mountain areas are a restricted zone in Upper Austria - unlike in Styria , for example , where it is the other way round.
Wind master plan Upper Austria
In 2011 the Upper Austrian provincial government decided on the Upper Austrian Wind Master Plan , which came into force on June 27, 2011. A working group on wind energy headed by the energy management planning department in the environmental protection department identified all promising and indisputable locations. The study of wind analysis Upper Austria by Energie AG , which was funded by the state, was also taken into account . Priority zones and exclusion zones were defined for further site planning :
- Priority zone locations are areas "which have an energy density that is economically viable for wind power use, at the same time comply with the ecologically necessary framework conditions and take into account the landscape with supraregional importance"
- Exclusion zones include, for example, the important nature, environmental and landscape protection areas and zones , such as the national park, UNESCO World Heritage, waterfronts, bird migration and wildlife corridors, including all locations above an altitude of 1,600 m (this means the entire inner Alpine region, Böhmwerwald and Freiwald / Weinsbergerwald completely recorded), but also numerous core settlement areas (especially in the Linz – Wels central area through the airfields)
Some areas in more concrete planning remained as potential location areas in which an individual decision is pending. Otherwise, it was suggested to further expand existing locations and to keep a minimum distance of 10 kilometers between wind farms “in order to keep the cumulative effect low and to avoid excessive stress on individual landscape areas”.
Locations
Overview
Surname | Construction year | Total power (MW) |
number | Type (WKA) | place | district | Coordinates | Project planner / operator | Remarks |
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Eberschwang wind turbines | 1996 | 1.0 | 2 | Enercon E-40 / 5.40 (2 ×) | Walling | RI | 48 ° 8 '41.1 " N , 13 ° 31' 8.6" E | Wind power Innviertel | Austria's first major wind power location |
Schenkenfelden wind turbines | 1998 | 1.2 | 2 | NEG Micon NM48 / 600 (2 ×) | Schenkenfelden | UU | 48 ° 30 '36 " N , 14 ° 21' 0.4" E | Future Energy | |
Schernham wind turbine | 2002-2003 | 1.8 | 1 | Enercon E-66 / 18.70 (1 ×) | Schernham | RI | 48 ° 10 '44.8 " N , 13 ° 36' 30.9" E | Wind power Innviertel | erected on the site of a gravel works |
Wind turbines Spörbichl | 1999 | 1.32 | 2 | Vestas V47-660kW (2 ×) | Spörbichl | FR | 48 ° 33 '7 " N , 14 ° 36' 0.3" E | New energy | |
Steiglberg wind turbine | 2002 | 2.0 | 1 | Vestas V80-2MW (1 ×) | Stilts | RI | 48 ° 5 '44.9 " N , 13 ° 21' 22" E | Kobernaußerwald Energy | erected on Kobernaußer Strasse |
Steindlberg wind turbines | 2001 | 1.32 | 2 | Vestas V47-660kW (2 ×) | Rodham | SD | 48 ° 19 ′ 20 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 57.2" E | ENERGY from A to Z | |
Laussa wind farm | 1996 | 1.8 | 3 | Tacke TW 600 (3 ×) | Plattenberg | SE | 47 ° 57 '6.6 " N , 14 ° 29" 31.5 " E | Energy AG | was the largest wind farm in Austria and the highest in Europe when it was built |
Munderfing wind farm | 2013-2014 | 15.0 | 5 | Vestas V112-3.0MW (5 ×) | Munderfing | BR | 48 ° 3 '16.5 " N , 13 ° 14' 29.2" E | EWS Consulting GmbH / Windpark Munderfing GmbH (Munderfing municipality, Energie AG, Energiewerkstatt GmbH) | erected in the Kobernaußerwald , first wind farm in majority municipal ownership in Austria |
Oberrödham wind farm | 1997 | 1.98 | 3 | Vestas V47-660kW (3 ×) | Oberrödham | SD | 48 ° 19 ′ 45.3 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 42.2" E | Energy AG | |
Sternwald wind farm | 2003 2005 2015-2016 |
20.0 | 9 |
Vestas V80-2MW (1 ×) Vestas V90-2MW (6 ×) Vestas V112-3.0MW (2 ×) |
Sternwald | UU | 48 ° 34 '52.8 " N , 14 ° 13' 25.8" E | WEB wind energy , STAR WIND | erected directly on the Czech border, expansion under construction |
Wind energy planning zones
The 27 priority zones and 4 potential location areas of the Upper Austrian Wind Master Plan are:
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Status: 10/2013
Planned and rejected locations
- Silventus wind farm : 13 2 MW turbines between Pöndorf , Lohnsburg and St. Johann am Walde ; Operator: Energiewerkstatt Munderfing, Bundesforste (2011 not eligible for approval)
Web links
- Wind power master plan Upper Austria . land-oberoesterreich.gv.at > Topics> Environment> Energy
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(to the locations in chronological order)
- Google Maps wind power map . IG Windkraft (Austria, with brief information, updated)
- Oberosterreich (Austria) . Database entries on thewindpower.net (list, from 2005, updated)
- Patrick Scherhaufer: Possibilities and limits of a local, environmentally friendly energy supply policy. Shown using the example of the wind farm in the municipality of Zurndorf (Bgld.) . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna. Vienna May 2002, Appendix A - Wind turbines in Austria , p. 126 ff . ( univie.ac.at [PDF] Status: Dec. 2001; Source: energiewerkstatt.at, January 17, 2002).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wind power in Upper Austria has a long tradition. ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) land-oberoesterreich.gv.at > Topics> Environment> Energy> Wind power master plan Upper Austria (status 2014, accessed January 9, 2016).
- ↑ See, for example, Andrijana Sokolovic Prokic: Current status of wind energy use in Austria . Diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology. Vienna September 2013, Table 5.1: Realizable potential 2012/2020/2030 , Table 6.1: Expansion in 2012 ; Figure 6.3: Current use of wind power in Austria , p. 36, 38 resp. 40 , 43 ff. ( Tuwien.ac.at [PDF]).
- ↑ a b c Comp. Gregori Stanzer, Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning: Wind turbines on forest sites. Status quo and planning instruments in Austria. (PDF) Presentation, transnational conference, Munich, June 24, 2015; especially maps of wind power in Austria: mean wind speed , fol. 2; and Wind Power Master Plan Upper Austria , Map, Fol. 14 (oir.at, accessed January 7, 2016).
- ↑ cf. → Article wind power plant: Energy supply and yield: yield .
- ↑ Wind power master plan Upper Austria . Office of Upper Austria. State government - Environment and Water Management Directorate - Environment Protection Department: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at > Environment> Energy
- ↑ a b c d Priority and exclusion zones of the Upper Austrian Wind Master Plan . ( Memento from October 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
- ↑ a b Wind power master plan priority zones . ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.3 MB) Wind Energy Working Group; Map, January 2012 (land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
- ↑ Wind power master plan exclusion zone. (PDF) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Working group wind energy; Map, January 2012 (land-oberoesterreich.gv.at; specifying the 14 specific exclusion criteria).
- ↑ Eberschwang wind farm , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Before that, only 5 individual systems under 250 kW were in operation; Adam and Eva, the 1st large wind farm in Austria . windkraft-innviertel.at
- ↑ Schernham wind power station , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Spörbichl wind farm , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Laussa wind farm , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Munderfing wind farm, Munderfing municipality, accessed on February 6, 2016
- ↑ Munderfing EWS-Consulting wind farm , accessed on February 6, 2016
- ↑ Oberrödham wind farm ( memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 6, 2016
- ↑ Sternwald wind farm , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Sternwald wind farm is being expanded , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Plans for three wind turbines in Hausruck-Nord . OÖ Nachrichten, January 21, 2013; Three wind turbines planned on ridges in Eberschwang and Pramet . OÖ Nachrichten, October 15, 2013;
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↑ Bundesforste want to build a wind farm on the Saurüssel . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten online, nachrichten.at, January 19, 2015;
Information about wind farms . rettet-das-salzkammergut.info, July 13, 2015;
This wind farm is particularly controversial because of the planned installation on the Kolomannsberg in the Salzburg region on the opposite side of the Zellersee , which would shape the landscape of this tourist region on both sides; see. Kolowindpark Thalgau . salzachwind.at, accessed January 9, 2016. - ↑ A project with 4 systems was rejected by the Moosbach community in 2012. Profit only for a few? The community rejects the planned wind power plant. Four wind turbines planned in Moosbach are not approved . Report by OÖ Nachrichten, by Dieter Seitl, quoted in windstill.at on June 19, 2012
- ^ Project Sonnkogel / Schneeberg of Energie AG; Wind power projects in the Steyr Valley / Enns Valley region ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , energieag.at, March 19, 2013.
- ↑ a b Eiskogel wind farm : 7 Enercon E82 (2.3 MW, H 98 m, Ø 82 m) would be planned; eiskogelwind.at ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); "Eiskogel" put to the test . Franz Staudinger in mein district.at, February 9, 2012
- ^ Project Fahrnberg / Mittereck of Energie AG; Wind power projects in the Steyr Valley / Enns Valley region ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , energieag.at, March 19, 2013.
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↑ Silventus wind farm . Project description 2004-2007, Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning;
Silventus wind farm . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .