GC: n

CT: Wind energy development zones, if done right, could be helpful to both birds and wind energy development. Siting is the most important step in making wind energy bird-smart, and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is developing a map of the areas where wind energy would be most risky to birds. ABC looks forward to participating in this rulemaking, to help ensure the BLM’s wind energy zones protect birds while encouraging well-sited wind energy development,” said Kelly Fuller, American Bird Conservancy’s Wind Campaign Coordinator.

S: http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/111229.html (last access: 2 December 2014)

N: 1. The law of 10th February 2000 on the Modernisation and Development of the Public Electricity Service (loi relative à la modernisation et au développement du service public de l’électricité) implemented European Directive 2001/77/EC on the Promotion of Electricity Produced from Renewable Energy Sources in the Internal Electricity Market into French law. In accordance with Article 10 of the law, EDF and local electricity suppliers are required to purchase electricity generated by wind energy at a preferential feed-in tariff.
Pursuant to Article 10, as amended, in order to benefit from the power purchase obligation, a wind turbine now has to be erected within a “Development Zone for Wind Energy” (Zone de développement de l’éolien – ZDE) that has been created by an order issued by the relevant Prefect. This prefectural order also specifies a minimum and maximum production capacity for all wind turbines located in the ZDE.
2. The ZDE is an energy law decision required in order to benefit from the power purchase obligation which remains completely independent from authorisations pertaining to planning law, such as building permits. As a result, a building permit may not be denied on the ground that the plot of land for which such permit is requested is located outside a ZDE (such projects would not, however, be able to benefit from the preferential feed-in tariff). Likewise, wind park projects planned in an existing ZDE will not automatically be granted a building permit. The building permit application must comply with the rules and regulations set out by town planning and town planning law.

S: 1 & 2. http://www.dewi.de/dewi_res/fileadmin/pdf/publications/Magazin_34/08.pdf (last access: 6 December 2014)

SYN: development zone for wind energy

S: http://www.dewi.de/dewi_res/fileadmin/pdf/publications/Magazin_34/08.pdf (last access: 2 December 2014)

CR: aeolian, windmill park, wind energy, [wind turbine].