Impact radii of mills clearly demarcated, use of areas in which there is already a visual impact to carry out repowering, or periodic inspections by the Xunta to monitor and extend the useful life of wind turbines. The president of the Ventonoso association, José Antonio Diéguez, appeared this Thursday at a press conference with the union representative of Unións Agrarías, Jacobo Feijóo, to present these measures and others like proposals to improve the Xunta wind sector plan, for which they hope that “we do not use a roller, but that we agree with the social agents”.
Among the modifications that the Regional Executive plans to approve in the area, throughout the Orzamentos Accompanying Law of 2025, an issue that “is of great concern” for the sector is that of distances, for example relation to the mills, that they consider themselves affected by their presence. Diéguez warned that, even if a minimum of five times the height of the devices is fixed, this specification only affects land in a demarcated rural core; And, Of around 30,000 villages spread throughout Galicia, “only around 13,000 are demarcated”, leaving the rest “out of protection”.
In these cases, a radius of 200 meters is proposed and the Xunta “adds [distancia] due to the noise they generate”, but the president of Ventonoso considers that “not clearly establishing a distance” is “worrying” and “can generate legal insecurity”. Seeking to avoid scenarios in which “neighbors report noises”, suggests setting the radius at 500 meters, “a safe distance.” Along the way, he recalled that the lines of the plan do not provide for the “shadow effect” caused by the wind turbines.
But a central part of its demand lies in repowering processes, aimed at reconditioning and modernizing older plants in order to extend their useful life. Diéguez and Feijóo rejected this obligation for devices older than 25 years and proposed that it be carried out instead. a periodic “technical inspection” by the Xunta, which, according to them, would also avoid a “legal disorder” for the Galician government.
Both agree on the need to “reduce” the number of wind turbines, but believe that “not all” of them should be replaced after a quarter of a century. In their appearance, they described as “excessive” the objective of reducing their numbers by 80% – something, in itself, “quite complicated”, due to the absence of a “device of such power ” – and they proposed “take advantage” of areas where there are already established parks and which are therefore already experiencing visual impact to carry out their repowering. They aimed to “double or triple energy where the factories are already located”, in order “to avoid putting [aerogeneradores] in new areas. With the “exception” of Red Natura, an environment which will have to be “emptied” of wind energy, reports Ep.
Eventually he insisted that the wind cannon be modified so that it began to bill the installed power and not the wind turbine, something they have been repeating since their association for “years”; and questioned “the distribution [de fondos] this is currently happening”, of three shares out of four for the Xunta and one for the municipalities, according to their data: “We think that there should be a more equitable distribution to the town halls, at least 50%”.
