Large Austrian wind farm wins state approval
Large Austrian wind farm wins state approval | Windpower Monthly
The Lower Austrian state government has approved the expansion of the Loidesthal wind farm.
ImWind’s 73MW Loidesthal II will comprise 11 turbines, with initial construction preparations currently planned for the end of the second quarter of 2024. Commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2025.
ImWind’s CEO, Georg Waldner, said: “Lower Austria is playing a pioneering role in the expansion of renewable energies and is aware of its wind power potential. We are very pleased to be able to hold in our hands the largest wind power permit in ImWind's recent history, the Loidesthal II wind farm”.
The wind farm is due to be one of the country’s largest. Only one wind farm commissioned in Austria since 2020 has a greater capacity than Loidesthal II, according to Windpower Intelligence, the research and data division of Windpower Monthly.
Austria has just over 3.5GW of operational wind power capacity.
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Decades of government support for the development of wind energy has resulted in lower costs and a rapidly growing share of electricity generated by wind turbines. Wind in 2019 accounted for 7.3 percent of electrical generation, surpassing for the first time hydropower at 7.0 percent.