Hilsberg wind farm

Hilsberg wind farm
	The 2017 wind farm
	location
	Hessen , Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 48 '12 " N , 8 ° 30' 19" E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '12 " N , 8 ° 30' 19" E
country	Germany
	Data
Type	Wind farm
Primary energy	Wind energy
power	15 megawatts
Start of operations	2015
turbine	5 wind turbines of the type Enercon E-101

The Hilsberg wind farm or Bad Endbach wind farm is a wind farm in the German district of Marburg-Biedenkopf . It is located in the municipality of Bad Endbach . It has five Enercon E-101 wind turbines and is entirely municipal owned.

Planning and construction

In the foreground a warehouse with components - in the background two half-finished wind turbines (May 2014)

In 2009 the project was made public for the first time in a public meeting on the budget. In January 2014, the Kassel Administrative Court approved the construction of the wind farm on Hilsberg.

A total of 23 million euros was invested.

business

With this, the municipality is also pursuing the goal of generating at least 20% of its electricity from renewable energies by 2020 and increasing energy efficiency by 20%. The first year of operation of the wind farm made a significant contribution to the fact that Bad Endbach can call itself a “climate protection community”.

criticism

The five wind turbines were built along the municipal boundary to Dautphetal near the Holzhausen district . A citizens' initiative against the project was founded in Holzhausen .

Web links

Commons : Windpark Hilsberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

20 bullet points on the “Hilsberg” wind farm. Bad Endbach community, accessed on December 24, 2015 .

Individual evidence

↑ communication. cdu-bad-endbach.de, archived from the original on December 25, 2015 ; accessed on December 24, 2015 .
↑ Court gives the green light for wind farm on Hilsberg. Mittelhessen.de, January 29, 2014, accessed December 24, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b Interview on renewable energies. (PDF) bad-endbach.de, accessed on December 24, 2015 .
↑ Reuter: "Hilsberg was the right decision". op-marburg.de, March 17, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2016 .
^ Citizens' initiative Holzhausen / Hünstein. bi-holzhausen.de, accessed on December 24, 2015 .

[1] communication. cdu-bad-endbach.de, archived from the original on December 25, 2015 ; accessed on December 24, 2015 .

[2] Court gives the green light for wind farm on Hilsberg. Mittelhessen.de, January 29, 2014, accessed December 24, 2015 .

[interview-3] Interview on renewable energies. (PDF) bad-endbach.de, accessed on December 24, 2015 .

[4] Reuter: "Hilsberg was the right decision". op-marburg.de, March 17, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2016 .

[5] Citizens' initiative Holzhausen / Hünstein. bi-holzhausen.de, accessed on December 24, 2015 .