“Grengiols is neutered!”

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Mr. Bodenmann, you were one of the first initiators of the Grengiols* Solar mega project. Did you really think the system could be built in its original format, or was it just megalomania?

Peter Bodenmann: I wasn’t just one of the promoters – it was I who came up with the idea! Unfortunately, solar non-swimmers have hijacked the project for now.

Why would they do this?

Such open space systems in the Alps should be subsidized by 60 percent. But in order for all regions to benefit from this rain of money, Grengiols had to be neutered. If Grengiols and Vispertal were built according to plan, much of the cake would already be gone. The damage is limited as everything remains blocked for the time being.

as the?

To make it rain (too high) subsidies, the first electricity must flow as early as 2025. But until then, no system will go into effect, as Greens and landscape conservationists will object to everyone.

So was the Valais Council of State Beat Rieder badly advised when he launched the Solar Express, which stipulates that the projects must supply electricity as early as 2025?

No, no, he and the Zurich Council of States…

… Ruedi Noser?

Precisely. The two were exploited by Alpiq. Because these Boni Stromers want to earn money from the conversion of alpine solar energy. These subsidy hunters provide the so-called landscape protectors with free ammunition.

But projects like Grengiols wouldn’t be possible without grants, right?

What! Just look at Germany, where quite a few open-space solar installations are already running without subsidy. Or to China, where gigantic factories are being built at an altitude of 4,000 meters – for a fraction of the price that taxpayers and consumers in Switzerland would be willing to pay. We still live behind the moon.

What do you mean?

At some point, even the last person will notice that without large open space systems in the Alps we have no chance of producing enough winter power. How else should it work? Firstly, paving the Hüsli roofs is extremely expensive and secondly, it does not provide enough electricity in winter. Then we build the big systems like Grengiols.

You have a bloody nose with your Grengiols idea.

We’re in the first third. It will be settled in ten years. In the end I’m right. There’s no other way. But neither Simonetta Sommaruga nor her successor Albert Rösti fight like German Environment Minister Habeck. Oh, and one more thing…

Yes please?

Now the Greens and conservationists come to talk about the oh so valuable landscapes for tourism. Whistle lid! The demand for this soft tourism is very modest. In the Binntal, one tourist company after another dies. The Swiss petty bourgeois says: “Oh, how beautiful the Saflisch valley is” – and then drives to Kloten airport to fly to Tenerife. This is especially true for the green voters, they are the worst polluters.

This is your position! They have also failed to ensure that Grengiols Solar is built in its original size.

Not yet. I wanted to create a competent political and technical support group for Grengiols and asked many people, such as former federal councilor Pascal Couchepin, to do so. Almost everyone agrees. The responsible state councilor Roberto Schmid defrauded the community for free. His employees don’t want anyone to interfere. Those who want to set up free-field solar systems in the Alps must accommodate the environmental movements: get rid of the nonsensical hydroelectric power stations of the round table. Increasing the amount of residual water. Decommissioning of small hydroelectric power stations that produce electricity only in summer.

*pronounce: Grengelsch

Source:Blick