Stegenwald power plant: Werk Salzburg AG start of construction in the next quarter
According to a resolution by the Supervisory Board of “Salzburg AG”, construction of the Salzach power plant in Stegenwald is to start in the first quarter of 2023. Mayor Hubert Stock (ÖVP) emphasizes that the municipality continues to support the project.
THROW. Construction work on the planned Salzach power plant in Stegenwald is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2023. This was decided yesterday at a Supervisory Board meeting of Salzburg AG. Construction is currently expected to take a little over two years.
”No suspensive effect” of the revision
“We have been planning the Stegenwald power plant together with Verbund since 2010,” says Leonhard Schitter, CEO of “Salzburg AG”. He criticizes that the procedure for approval of the construction would have been delayed for far too long. Overall, all the objections resulted in a delay of around seven years. At the end of August, the State Environmental Prosecutor’s Office (LUA) at the Administrative Court objection to construction a. According to Werfen Mayor Hubert Stock (ÖVP), in whose municipality the new power plant is planned, the LUA’s complaint “no longer has a suspensive effect” on the construction project.
The municipality of Werfen supports the project
In the statement of the LUA it was said in the summer, “that there is an extraordinarily high interest in the preservation of the last free flow stretch of the middle Salzach and cannot be outweighed per se by the interest in the generation of energy from hydropower.” Various nature conservation organizations, including such as the “Alpenverein” or the “Landesfischereiverband” renewed theirs in September demands on the state government “To examine the Stegenwald area to see whether it is suitable for being placed under protection as a natural monument or a protected part of the landscape.” The community of Werfen continues to support the project. Mayor Stock considers the project to be “effective and necessary.”
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