The Impact of Wind Turbine Permit Rejections in Wallonia: Assessing the Houffalize Case

2023-09-20 16:05:43

The sixteen wind turbines planned in the Houffalize area would have produced the equivalent of 10% of Walloon wind production in 2022. Article reserved for subscribers Journalist in the Economy department By Jean-François Munster Published on 09/20/2023 at 6 p.m. :05 Reading time: 1 min

It is not unusual for a permit application for the installation of wind turbines to be rejected in Wallonia. The constraints (environmental, land use planning, etc.) and local opposition are such that this happens frequently. The recent refusal by the Walloon government to the wind farm project in the territory of the municipality of Houffalize nevertheless arouses great perplexity in the Belgian renewable sector.

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