The trade affiliation Photovoltaic Austria denounces a “huge want for enchancment within the approval necessities for PV programs”. “PV programs should be accepted in the identical manner and simply all through the nation,” mentioned managing director Vera Immitzer on Sunday. There are at present 9 completely different laws in 9 federal states, from constructing laws to nature conservation to electrical energy legislation.
The situation shouldn’t decide how costly it’s. The Renewable Vitality Enlargement Acceleration Act introduced a 12 months and a half in the past ought to present a treatment. In any other case, Austria will stay depending on fossil vitality.
Whereas a PV system in Salzburg, for instance, is all the time exempt from approval so long as it was put in by a specialist firm, a PV system in Tyrol is topic to notification from 50 kW and even requires approval from 250 kW. One other instance in response to PV Austria: Whereas a PV system in Decrease Austria is exempt from approval in response to the constructing laws, the identical system 100 meters additional throughout the state border in Burgenland requires approval from the mayor from 20 kW. This illustrates an “pressing want for motion for a uniform regulation,” says Immitzer.
