New Aquitaine: Wind farms — Location

This dataset contains the locations (surface objects) of wind farms in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The Grenelle 2 Act brought onshore wind turbines into the field of facilities classified for environmental protection (ICPE). This administrative development aims to ensure the safe development of wind energy in France under good conditions of preservation of the quality of life of local residents. The new regulatory framework has been designed to make project leaders more legible and to reduce training times for them while clarifying the regulatory requirements necessary to protect human and environmental issues. This new regulation also makes it possible to better guarantee compliance with the regulations over time and thus a good control of the risks and nuisances related to this activity. The corresponding regulatory texts, a nomenclature decree, two ministerial decrees on general requirements, as well as a decree and ministerial decree specific to financial guarantees were published on 25, 26 and 27 August 2011 in the Official Journal. These regulations specify the administrative regimes now applicable to wind farms as well as the operating rules, specify the decommissioning obligations at the end of operation and set up a system of financial guarantees to ensure such decommissioning in the event of a failure. From now on, the operation of a wind farm with one or more wind turbines is subject to: Authorisation where the installation includes at least one aerogenerator with a height of more than 50 metres, or where the installation includes only wind turbines with a mast between 12 and 50 metres and an installed capacity exceeding 20 MW. Declaration where the installation includes only wind turbines with a height of between 12 and 50 metres and for an installed capacity of less than 20 MW.