The ambitious expectations of politic and industrial sectors are stimulating the planning activities for offshore wind power. Under the Infrastructure Planning Acceleration Act, which entered into force on the 17th of December 2006, the transmission system operators (TSO) in Germany are required to provide grid connections for offshore wind parks up to their offshore substations. This has prompted E.ON Netz to plan for a “first of its kind” bulk power offshore grid connection in the North Sea. With a total offshore wind power requesting for grid connection ranging up to 12 000 MW by the end of 2011, the design of an ecologically, economically and technically efficient offshore grid is extremely complex. The ongoing work to reach this goal is described in this paper.     «

The ambitious expectations of politic and industrial sectors are stimulating the planning activities for offshore wind power. Under the Infrastructure Planning Acceleration Act, which entered into force on the 17th of December 2006, the transmission system operators (TSO) in Germany are required to provide grid connections for offshore wind parks up to their offshore substations. This has prompted E.ON Netz to plan for a “first of its kind” bulk power offshore grid connection in the North Sea...     »