Groundbreaking Ceremony for Small Wind Power Plant Großschönau
20 October, 2022
Small wind turbines are being built at demonstration sites in Lower Austria for the SmallWind4Cities project. In this context, best-practice examples are to be developed and the acceptance among the population is to be increased.
On 4.10.2022 the groundbreaking ceremony for the project “Small Wind Power for a Resilient and Sustainable Energy System of Smart Cities”, in short SmallWind4Cities, took place at Sonnenplatz in Großschönau. The project is scientifically accompanied by the UAS Technikum Wien. The company Blue Power GmbH from Liezen is installing small wind turbines at the demonstration sites Großschönau and Tulln.
In the market town of Großschönau, one is being built at Sonnenplatz in the area of the Sonnenwelt hall. The turbine will reach a height of almost eight meters and a nominal power of about 1 kW.
Around the groundbreaking ceremony there was the opportunity to inform oneself about the topic and to exchange ideas with representatives of the industry. Numerous residents and interested parties from beyond the municipal boundaries took advantage of this opportunity.
The goals of the project are to develop methods and criteria for site selection and evaluation, to create best-practice examples for approval procedures and, above all, to increase acceptance among the population. Factors such as subjective noise perception and safety concerns play a key role here.
Awareness is to be created and acceptance of small wind turbines increased through targeted information events. “This technology represents an optimal complement to photovoltaics,” says Alexander Hirschl-Schmol from the Renewable Energy Technologies competence field.
The project is funded by the Climate and Energy Fund in the “Smart Cities Demo” program line. The overriding goal of the call for proposals is to transfer research into practice and to create experimental spaces or demonstration sites in order to generate added value for municipalities.