With regard to environmental protection and the wider impact of our activities in the field of renewable energies, we take a holistic approach.

We implement a wide range of environmental protection measures at our wind farms. At the Kastorf wind farm, for example, these include the following:

• To prevent residents from being disturbed by shadows, the turbines switch off at certain positions of the sun.

• All turbines within 500 metres of freshly harvested fields are operated exclusively at night for five days so that the local red kites can hunt undisturbed during the day.

• From May to September, some of the turbines are also switched off at night in certain weather conditions to protect the bat population there. In addition, ultrasound microphones record the bat flights to evaluate the effectiveness of this measure.