Lithuanian energy company Ignitis wants to build a wind farm with up to 11 turbines near close to the summer capital Pärnu, but the city government is not behind the idea.
Initially, the company planned to build two wind farms in the area with a total of 28 turbines and submitted an application last spring. One wind farm was planned for the Tõstamaa district near Lake Ermistu and the other for the Audru district near the village of Jõõpre.
At the beginning of this year, the Tõstamaa plan was dropped. Ignitis development manager Sander Sorts said the plan was halted after a bird survey showed that the area is not suitable for wind farm development.
“It would have been possible to install turbines there on a reduced scale and with greater operational restrictions, which would make the project economically unreasonable and too damaging to nature. Therefore, we dropped that area,” he said.
Ignitis now wants to build a wind farm with up to 11 turbines near Jõõpre. More than 300 residential buildings would fall within the wind farm’s three-kilometer impact area, and at the beginning of the year a petition opposing the initiation of the special plan was submitted with 220 signatures.
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