Miłosz Motyka, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment, announced that the new draft of the wind farm bill unblocking wind farm investments will be ready in June 2024. How close to residential buildings will wind farms be allowed to be built?
- Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Environmental and Environmental Protection, Miłosz Motyka, announced on Monday on Radio Zet that the draft wind farm law will be ready in the first half of this year, by June at the latest.
- Miłosz Motyka added that the new provisions of the Wind Farm Act will be “broad” and their aim will be to unblock wind energy on land. Proposals for changes in regulations are to be consulted first.
- The act unblocking investments in wind farms will focus on the 500 m requirement when it comes to the distance from buildings. No noise standards.
A parliamentary bill amending acts to support consumers of electricity, gas fuels and heat and certain other acts, submitted on November 28 this year. by a group of KO and Polska 2050-TD MPs, represented by KO MP, Krzysztof Gadowski, as we know, it did not go through the legislative path.
A parliamentary bill pushing for the unblocking of wind investments failed
The draft of this act quietly introduced many reprehensible changes that had nothing to do with helping farm owners reduce the prices of electricity, heat and gas, including: in the Act on investments in wind farms, where a minimum distance of photovoltaic and wind farms was introduced not only from residential buildings but also from agricultural land.
It is worth recalling that the draft wind farm act was to introduce completely new rules for locating wind farms, including the possibility of locating wind farms on the basis of the “wind farm resolution” (provisions similar to the infamous “lex developer” act), i.e. contrary to the provisions of applicable local spatial development plans.
The previous parliamentary bill on assistance to recipients introduced smaller required distances to residential buildings: windmills from 300 m in the case of multi-family buildings and from 400 m in the case of single-family buildings), from national parks and nature reserves (the project assumes the possibility of locating wind farms from these areas in distance of 300 m, although page 20 of the justification mentioned 500 m).
A new draft of the wind farm law in June 2024. What can we expect?
Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Environmental and Environmental Protection, Miłosz Motyka, announced on Monday on Radio Zet that the draft wind farm law will be ready in the first half of this year, by June at the latest.
He added that the new regulations will be “broad” and their aim will be to unblock onshore wind energy. Proposals for changes in regulations are to be consulted first.
According to Miłosz Motyka, the previously developed requirement of a 500-meter distance between wind turbines and residential buildings should be retained in the new draft wind farm act.
The law should focus around 500 m when it comes to the distance from buildings. No noise standards. According to the latest analyses, and according to detailed technological research, this distance guarantees adequate peace and quiet – emphasized the deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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