The west coast line from the Danish border to Brunsbüttel has started operations. The northern program director of the network operator Tennet, Klaus Deitermann, emphasized the importance of the line. It is already clear that these lines make a decisive contribution to the fact that more and more wind turbines are turning here, he said. “Schleswig-Holstein is therefore the only federal state in which the high-cost forced shutdown of onshore wind turbines is decreasing.” The west coast line is 140 kilometers long and has a voltage of 380 kilovolts (kV). It is built as an overhead line and is used to absorb large amounts of wind power from the west coast. Electricity has been flowing through the line since the end of September. After the symbolic commissioning, interested parties were able to find out more about the system and its role in the energy transition at an open day at the Heide substation. In recent years, more wind power has often been produced in the north than consumed. One goal of the energy transition is to bring wind power from the coast to large consumers in western and southern Germany.
The wind power can flow – economy
