President signs amendment to distance law after nearly 7 years
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The minimum distance of wind turbines from buildings will now be 700 meters. With current technologies, this is noticeably less than the notorious 10h – ten times the height of the turbine including blades.
Will this mean a boom in onshore wind farm investments? Not necessarily. As Instrat Foundation experts pointed out, increasing the minimum distance from 500 meters (as in the original draft amendments) to 700 meters reduces the area of available land by 47 percent.
Besides, it will take some time before we see new investments. Municipalities must prepare zoning plans, and energy companies must prepare projects.
