As he pursues an accelerated wind power build-out, Germany’s new economics and climate minister Robert Habeck is putting pressure on Bavaria – the country’s biggest state by landmass – to scrap or loosen a turbine distance rule that has brought expansion there to a near standstill.
Bavaria in 2014 enacted the so-called 10H distance rule – meaning new wind farms need to be built at a distance from the next human settlement of at least ten times the tip height of a wind turbine.
