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In Valais, former SP doyen Peter Bodenmann (70) dreams of a gigantic photovoltaic field: the project is called Grengiols Solar and is intended to provide electricity to 400,000 households in Switzerland for a year.
Bodenmann’s dream is to one day place solar fields on five square kilometers of the steep southern slopes of the Valais municipality of Grengiols. The project became a symbol of the solar offensive.
Fearing an energy shortage, parliament very quickly approved an urgent federal law in the autumn, which in principle wants to allow large power plants like this one with a minimum annual production of 20 GWh.
But Grengiols Solar soon came under criticism: hardly anyone believes that the power station will be built within the deadline of 2025. Environmental groups announced their opposition to the project, which is planned in a regional natural park. And the Greens in the canton of Valais have also started a referendum.
feasibility study presented
How big the gigantic solar system will actually be built, becomes clear today. On Wednesday morning, the municipality of Grengiols and the energy suppliers Energie Brig-Aletsch-Goms (EnBAG) and Forces Motrices Valaisannes (FMV) want to present to the media during a conference what the project should look like one day. A long-announced feasibility study will also be shown.
In the Valais village it is already assumed that the project will be smaller than previously announced. They expect a scaled-down project on an area of three and a half square kilometers. Because the southern flank of Alp Furgge in the Saflischtal is probably too steep and covered with streams and parts that threaten to slip.
The population is informed in the evening
Today, the question of exactly where to place the panels and how to anchor them in the ground should be a topic of discussion. “If large vehicles drive over the alpine pasture, no edelweiss will grow there for the next fifty years,” fears Klaus Agten from IG Saflischtal, who is against the mega project. He wants to discuss the plans and the feasibility study in more detail in the afternoon. At best, the associations are considering objections to the building permit, which the Valais Council of State could one day rule on.
Only in the afternoon the environmental organizations are informed about the project and in the evening the local population. The extent to which the population of the community benefits from such a mega project should be particularly discussed here.
Source:Blick
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