A-Nord is a planned high-voltage connection that will extend over approximately 300 kilometers as an underground cable from Emden on the North Sea coast to the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2027, the connection will transport up to 2 GW of wind energy to large industrial consumers and is expected to be able to supply the equivalent of around two million households. This is reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The project has now received final approval from the Bundesnetzagentur. In this connection, Director Klaus Müller has expressed support for a savings proposal from the future government parties CDU and SPD. This proposes to abolish the current priority for buried cables and instead open the possibility of using overhead lines again. Since 2015, German legislation has ensured that underground cables have priority in new transmission projects.
“We have never hidden the fact that we feel obliged to lower costs and increase efficiency,” says Klaus Müller, CEO of the Bundesnetzagentur.
A-Nord is owned by the transmission company Amprion and is expected to cost around 3 billion euros (approximately 22.4 billion kroner). It is not clear whether this amount will be less with an overhead high-voltage line.
When the line is in operation, it is expected to reduce the need for expensive grid interventions during periods of strong winds and high wind energy production – situations where the grid currently cannot handle the power, and power plants must therefore be compensated for turning down.
Already last year, Klaus Müller from the Bundesnetzagentur estimated that the total savings potential for future electricity infrastructure projects could reach 16.5 billion. euros (approx. DKK 123 billion) if the priority for buried cables in the legislation is not used.
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