The green-black government in Baden-Württemberg wants to identify all legal and organizational obstacles that prevent the expansion of wind energy and photovoltaic systems by December.
A "task force" is used for this purpose.
Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) said that the expansion of renewable energies had to be accelerated "radically".
The country must be climate neutral in 19 years.
Rudiger Soldt
Political correspondent in Baden-Württemberg.
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The aim is to shorten the planning time for wind turbines from the current seven years to around three and a half years. A “wind-on-shore law” could be a contribution from federal politics; It is an important question whether the new federal government can bring such a law into motion and whether it will manage to remove the approval of such systems from the immission control law. Environment Minister Thekla Walker (Greens) also pleaded for a change in the immission control approval procedure.
The individual measures now to be examined by the experts do indeed sound "radical": the state government wants to examine whether wind power plants and open-space photovoltaic systems can not be built "generally" in regional green belt areas and in landscape protection areas. The construction of wind turbines in water protection areas of zone 2 should also be made possible. Approval procedures for regions in which certain bird species occur are to be standardized. “We won't be able to protect every animal. We have to succeed in expanding renewables without turning against species protection, ”said Walker.
An “infrastructure senate” could be set up at the administrative court in Mannheim;
The government is questioning whether planning sovereignty is best left with the regional councils.
When citizens are involved, there should be more “dialogical citizen participation” and fewer citizens' decisions in the future.
He did not want to "roll down" public participation, said Kretschmann.