Würzburg (dpa / lby) – The transmission system operator TransnetBW will soon start investigating the ground for the construction of the Suedlink wind power line in the Würzburg district. From May 3 to the end of October, work will take place around Zellingen, Thüngersheim and Altertheim, as the Würzburg district office announced on Wednesday. The building site, flora and fauna as well as archaeological monuments are examined. The aim is to lash the concrete course of the line to a width of 100 meters.
The 1000 meter wide corridor in which the lines for all of Bavaria will later run has already been determined. Now it comes to the detailed planning. Only underground cables are to be laid here.
TransnetBW submitted the application for planning approval for the section between Oerlenbach (Bad Kissingen district) and Altertheim (Würzburg district) in mid-November 2020. Such requests contain suggestions on the possible course of the line and alternatives.
Suedlink, a total of around 700 kilometers in length and half of which is also operated by the network operator Tennet, will not be ready until 2026 at the earliest and could cost around ten billion euros due to the underground cables, which are much more expensive than overhead lines.
The wind power will travel from the north to the south via new high-voltage direct current connections such as Suedlink. Suedlink is to lead from southern Schleswig-Holstein west of Hanover and Göttingen via northern Hesse and southern Thuringia to Bergrheinfeld in Lower Franconia and the Großgartach substation near Heilbronn.
Citizens’ initiatives against the plans have formed in many places across the country, for example for reasons of environmental protection.
As things stand, construction work in Lower Franconia will start at the end of 2022 / beginning of 2023 at the earliest. Among other things, a vineyard is to be drilled through at Thüngersheim and the Main to be crossed.
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