Today, the "Offshore North Sea Federal Plan" was published by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), presenting the first offshore network plan.
"The forward thinking of our group has ensured that "Witte Bank" in Cluster 13 is part of the agreed overall plan", say Managing Directors Heike Kröger and Ubbo de Witt.
"That guarantees a binding foundation, legal security and a reliable planning basis for the individual approval procedures", according to the BSH in its press release of 22.2.13.
The offshore network plan groups together the planned and approved wind farms with a maximum distance from the coast of 120 km into 13 clusters. It determines routes or route corridors for wind farm connection lines, locations for converter platforms and transformer stations, routes for cross-border electric lines and transfer points between the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and territorial seas. In this way, it establishes a binding infrastructure for electricity networks.
"With the Offshore North Sea Federal Plan, the BSH has, in a record time of ten months, drawn up the world's first systematic electricity network plan for the offshore area", said Monika Breuch-Moritz, President of the BSH. "The capacities in the plan have been designed so that the federal government's energy policy targets up to 2030 can be achieved. The network plan was drawn up in close cooperation with the Federal Network Agency and the coastal states."
Sources:
Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH): Bundesfachplan Offshore für die deutsche ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone der Nordsee 2012 und Umweltbericht (German)
