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Federal sectoral planning: nature and environmental conservation for the expansion of the transmission grid

Project title: Development of technical standards for the nature and environmental assessment of federal sectoral planning to increase the acceptance of the results and the planning and legal certainty of the process

Focus

  • Federal sectoral planning in practice
  • Proposals and coordination on standard methodologies

Contact

PLANUNGSGRUPPE UMWELT
Stiftstr. 12, 30159 Hannover
Dipl.-Ing. Holger Runge
Tel.: : +49 511 51949780
www.planungsgruppe-umwelt.de

 

Funding

FKZ 3518 86 0600
Departmental research plan 2018
Term: 01.08.2018 – 30.04.2020

Despite the initial publications by the Federal Network Agency and transmission grid operators, in practice there are still unresolved questions about the methodology of federal sectoral planning in terms of many of the procedural steps. This applies for example to key aspects such as the definition of "spatial resistance classes" and the proposals for new transmission corridors and their plausibility. This stage of the procedure requires the development of new proposals for technical methodologies based on the existing principles and taking account of experience with the current federal sectoral planning process.

Based on the practice of federal sectoral planning, the R+D project aims to analyse processes, identify optimisation requirements and potential approaches for standardising the methods, and integrate proposals for specialist methods into federal sectoral planning by 2020.

Methods

Reviewing and presenting existing nature conservation and planning methods for the expansion and new construction of high-voltage electricity lines (underground cables and overhead power lines).

  • Presenting the processes and identifying difficulties in connection with federal sectoral planning, established from current practice in ongoing procedures.
  • Developing proposals about the point at which to introduce standardisation of the methods required in the course of generating documents for federal sectoral planning.
  • Establishing a working aid that describes the agreed methodological standards for planning practice in a form that can be used directly.

Results

The two reports that have now been submitted come at a time of intensive legislative activity to accelerate the expansion of the electricity grid. The implementation of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) is expected to lead to the elimination of federal sectoral planning in the future, for which the R&D project was intended to provide methodological input. Some of the methodological proposals contained in the two reports, one on underground cables and one on overhead lines, can also be utilised in the expected determination of infrastructure areas for power line projects. In particular, the proposals for greater automation of the corridor search for power lines and the intensive examination of which data sets are good indicators for which conflicts can be used for this purpose. The ideas and results set out in the two reports are therefore not obsolete, but can also be usefully applied in the new legal environment.

Work packages

Work packages

  1. Analysing the status quo
  2. Proposals for the development of methodological standards
  3. Developing specific proposals for the standard methodologies
  4. Agreeing the methodological standards

Project partners

Project partners

Project management

PLANUNGSGRUPPE UMWELT
Stiftstr. 12, 30159 Hannover
Dipl.-Ing. Holger Runge
Tel.: +49 511 51949780
www.planungsgruppe-umwelt.de

Project partners

Bosch & Partner GmbH
Kantstr. 63a, 10627 Berlin
Dr. Wolfgang Peters
Tel.: +49 30 609 88 44-60
w.peters(at)avoid-unrequested-mailsboschpartner.de

Arbeitsgruppe Land & Wasser
29355 Beedenbostel, Amtshof 18
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaiser
Tel.: +49 5145 2575
kaiser-alw(at)avoid-unrequested-mailst-online.de

Funding

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
II 4.2 Impact Assessment Instruments for Nature Conservation and Infrastructure Projects
Herr Dr. Klaus Follner
Klaus.Follner(at)avoid-unrequested-mailsBfN.de

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