Assessment of the feasibility of wind farm projects in the German Baltic Sea
Customer: Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH
Assessment of the feasibility of planned German Baltic Sea-OWP projects
On the 17th December 2006, the law relating to the acceleration of planning procedures for infrastructure projects ("lnfrastrukturplanungsbeschleunigungsgesetz") became effective. This law is meant to simplify the planning and realisation of different infrastructure projects, for instance grid lines. In connection with this, responsibilities for infrastructural developments were reorganised. Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH is now responsible for all the grid lines of offshore wind farm projects in the whole German Baltic Sea. In spring 2007, Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH therefore engaged a group of experts to develop an objective assessment of the feasibility of planned German Baltic Sea OWP projects.
OECOS GmbH participates in the mentioned group of experts together with the Kuhbier lawyer's office and the following companies: IMS GmbH, De La Motte GmbH and Windguard GmbH. OECOS GmbH represents ecological planning, nature conservation and procedure-related aspects in this group.
To undertake an objective and comprehensible complete assessment and a neutral comparison of the individual OWP projects, the most important steps were commented in each project, influence factors were determined and all facts were documented in a criterion catalogue. In a further step, an assessment of the planning processes was carried out and justified in detail on basis of the criterion catalogue.