07/03/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
Bayern's largest distribution network operator continues to make its power distribution network fit for the energy transition. In its Franconian power grid, Bayernwerk Netz is investing 46 million euros.
Total, it is 790 million euros that Bayernwerk wants to put into the expansion and maintenance of its power grid this year. A "record sum", which is intended in particular to increase the performance of the regional distribution network and strengthen the necessary network capacities for the feed-in of renewable energies. Of the 790 million euros, 205 million euros will go to the Franconia region and 46 million euros to the area of Bayernwerk's Bamberg customer center in Upper Franconia. The grid operator announced what it plans to do there at an on-site meeting.
"The distribution network is the control center of the energy transition. With our network investments, we are equipping our infrastructure for the future. Together with other grid operators, we are at the heart of the transformation of the energy system," explained Carsten Schneider, head of the Bamberg customer center.
In the field of electricity, the Bamberg customer center area comprises 101 municipalities in the districts of Bamberg, Haßberge, Lichtenfels, Forchheim, as well as parts of Coburg, Nürnberger Land, Erlangen-Höchstadt and Neustadt an der Aisch. Bayernwerk supplies around 340,000 residents here with electricity.
Individual projects that the network operator, headquartered in Regensburg, is planning in the Bamberg region:
- At Heubach, it wants to replace the medium-voltage overhead line with 900 meters of underground cable. The new cables have a higher transmission capacity and are less exposed to weather extremes than overhead lines.
- Bei Ailsbach and Fetzhofen is also wired the power grid. For this purpose, 3.5 kilometers of medium-voltage cable and 150 meters of low-voltage cable will be laid. - The same also at Appenfelden and Füttersee. There, 12.4 kilometers of medium-voltage cables and 700 meters of low-voltage cables are laid in the ground. In addition, three intelligent local network stations are to be built and two existing stations are modernized.
- Between Störnhof and Veilbronn, 3.1 kilometers of medium-voltage and 600 meters of low-voltage cables will be put into the ground.
- In Ebern and Eltmann in the Haßberge district, Bayernwerk is renewing the substations and thus increases the capacity of the plants.
- From the Eltmann substation, a high-voltage line runs in the direction of Herzogenaurach. On the approximately 63-kilometer-long overhead line, 95 pylons are reinforced, increased or renewed.
Bayernwerk is currently experiencing a "connection boom" of decentralized, green energy generation plants. The connection inquiries increased, as the supplier communicates, from 3,000 to 6,000, tendency rising. Currently, 390,000 decentralized feed-in plants are connected to Bayernwerk's power grid, mostly photovoltaics. Currently, the utility distributes more than 70 percent renewable electricity, according to its own information.
Author: Davina Spohn
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