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Berlin Court Protects 50-Year-Old Tree – No Priority for Solar Power
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A homeowner, a pine tree and a conflict: before the Berlin Administrative Court, the question was whether a tree for solar power could be cut down. The case shows how complicated the energy transition can be. By Max Kell.
A solar power plant is producing less electricity because a tree is casting a shadow – but the court sees no reason for it to be felled.
A man from the southwest of Berlin wants to cut down a large tree – because of his photovoltaic system. But if he is not allowed, the administrative court decided.
Showdown between climate and nature. The two national objectives clashed fiercely before the Berlin Administrative Court. The victory went to nature. A homeowner from the green-leaning, and of course politically, district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf was struggling with a roughly 50-year-old Scots pine tree in front of his detached house. With its sprawling branches and a trunk circumference of over two meters, it cast a shadow on his expensive roofto…
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