Where the current motorway in Bavaria is to extend

The grid operator Tennet has presented his plans to the Southeast on the left - so for the part of the current highway between the yard and Pfreimd, upper Palatinate, Germany. The "action Alliance against the southeastern route" calls for a protest rally against the southeastern link in the yard. Experts expect that the planned start-up of the current highway can't be held in the year 2025. the By Andreas glass, and Christian Sebald, Tirschenreuth

of Course, the Tirschenreuther district administrator Wolfgang Lippert is disappointed "that the South East link comes at all". Finally, the Free voters, to trust-politicians on its party chief Huber Aiwanger. Aiwanger has stressed in recent weeks that the current highway is from his point of view for the energy transition is necessary.

route the "action Alliance against the Southeast", which was set up a number of regional citizens ' initiatives, rejects the current highway more strictly. "Networks do not produce electricity, they are able to help for a clean energy supply," says Alliance spokesperson Debbie Hamann. Therefore, the action Alliance is calling for a protest rally against the salvation link on Friday in Hof in upper Franconia.

On Wednesday presented to the network operator Tennet, with its in-depth plans to the section C of the southeastern left - so for the part of the current highway between the yard and Pfreimd, upper Palatinate, Germany. So still no decision on the exact course of the high-voltage line is already determined, between the Saxony-Anhalt Wolmirstedt and the lower Bavarian food stream, which will run the wind power from North Germany to Bavaria. But the current step shows once more that the procedures for the project, its course and the current highway will come to all objections and protests to the Despite. Soon Tennet submits the documents to the Federal network Agency.

The current state of planning includes, as before, of several variants for the thousand-metre-wide corridor in the southeastern link through the North of Bavaria. Tennet favored, however, clear to the East, in the graph marked in red variant. The current highway once in the entire section, as an underground cable laid. The Eastern variant, the landscape is less populated, less wooded and not so much of valleys cut as in the other regions. These factors make both the construction and operation of the ground wire is cheaper and easier than there.

For the line should be according to present planning two 320 Kilovolt cable in about 1.5 to two meters deep in the ground and a distance of five to eight metres. The actual Line route will be approximately 15 meters wide, the construction is, however, required an up to 30 metre wide strip. Currently, Tests with new, much more powerful 525-Kilovolt-run, however, underground cables. You should be able to be used would be the route to significantly reduce the. The Tirschenreuther County Commissioner Lippert hopes that at least once this narrower, from his point of view, significantly more environmentally friendly route can be implemented.

Until the beginning of the construction work, however, it is still very far away. In the next step, the Federal network Agency will examine, in keeping with the requirements set out in the grid expansion acceleration act, the Tennet plan for the 1000-metre-wide corridors. Thereafter, a discussion will take place process, in which local residents, municipalities and Technical objections and suggestions can make. After consideration, the Federal network Agency decides on the corridor, in which the electricity highway will run. Only then the approval process begins for the exact route of the South East to the left. Alone because of the complex procedure, many experts expect that the planned start-up of the current highway can't be held in the year 2025.