The Ministry of Defence wants the ‘protected zones’ for wind farms around eight military radar installations to increase from 28 to 75 km away. The radar equipment would be too much to be disturbed by the rotating blades of wind turbines.
Reports that Fidelity. Military radarposts, which will be used for both the civil and military aviation, among others, in the provinces of Friesland, Noord-Holland, Utrecht and North Brabant, would suffer from wind farms. Therefore, it would be Defence the protected zones around the radar installations significantly want to stretch it in place of the current 28km would the zone 75km should be. Provinces that are within these areas, windmills wish to place, must first obtain permission from the ministry of Defence.
The enlargement of the protected zones around radar equipment can have dramatic consequences for the possible construction of new wind farms; virtually the whole of the Netherlands would be within the new zones fall. Several provinces have plans for wind farms, drawn up with locations that are within the 75km-zones, including the provinces of Friesland and Drenthe.
According to Defence to take the interference on the radar equipment, because modern wind turbines become higher and higher. There would be technical adjustments to the radar equipment to be made, but Defence maintains that any construction project will, through them, to be tested. The stricter rules would have to address as soon as the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment the consequences for the windmolenambities of the government has studied.
It is not the first time that the ministry of Defence, stricter rules up for technology that military installations can interfere. So had to Aerea, the first and only wimax provider in the Netherlands, his activities in 2010 to cease once it became clear that no permit for expansion of the network. Wimax would be the 3.5 GHz frequency of satellietgrondstation Station12 disturb.