Assessment of the feasibility of windfarm plans in the German Baltic Sea
Ordering party: Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH
Assessment of the feasibility of planned German Baltic Sea-OWP projects
On 12-17-2006 the act on the acceleration of infrastructure plans ("lnfrastrukturplanungsbeschleunigungsgesetz") became effective. This act is meant to simplify the planning and realization of different infrastructure projects, for example grid lines. In connection with this resposibilities for infrastructural developments were organized newly. The Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH is now responsible for all the grid lines to offshore windfarm projects in the complete German Baltic Sea. Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH therefore engaged a group of experts to work out an objective assessment of the feasibility of planned German Baltic Sea-OWP projects in spring 2007.
OECOS GmbH partizipates in the mentioned group of experts as well as the lawyer's office Kuhbier and the companies IMS GmbH, De La Motte GmbH and Windguard GmbH. OECOS GmbH represents ecological planning, nature conservation and process-related aspects in this group.
To undertake an objective and comprehensible complete assessment and a neutral comparison of the individual OWP projects, in each project the most important project steps were commented, influence factors were determined and all facts were documented in a criterion catalog. In a further step an assessment of the planning processes was carried out and justified in detail on basis of the criterion catalog.