Oberstdorf (dpa / lby) - Despite negative court judgments on hydroelectric power plants in the Bavarian Alps in the past, there are now new considerations about a power plant in the Allgäu. The legal situation could have changed due to new legal requirements, according to which renewable energies should be promoted.
According to the Oberallgäu district office, a more than ten-year-old project for a power plant in the Stillachtal valley near Oberstdorf was recently taken up again. Environmentalists have already protested that the earlier plans are now to be resumed. The Bund Naturschutz (BN) criticized the power plant plans for the most part in the Allgäu High Alps nature reserve and a European fauna-flora habitat area.
In 2017, the Augsburg administrative court had declared the approval of another hydroelectric power plant just a few kilometers away to be inadmissible. At that time, the judges had based themselves on a decision by the Bavarian Administrative Court (VGH), according to which a hydroelectric power plant in the Berchtesgaden Alps was also not permitted.
According to the district office, however, it should be noted that the legal conditions have changed in the meantime. The expansion of renewable energies is now "in the overriding public interest".
