Neudorf substation ensures faster wind power connection
06/23/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
N-Ergie Netz enables faster grid connection of wind turbines with project developer Wust Wind & Sonne. For this purpose, a customer-owned large transformer is erected.
N-Ergie Netz is breaking new ground in the grid connection of renewable energy plants together with the project developer Wust Wind & Sonne from Markt Erlbach. In order to connect the citizen wind farms in Dietenhofen and Neuhof a.d. Zenn in Middle Franconia to the power grid in a timely manner, N-Ergie Netz is enabling the regional company to build a customer-owned large transformer on the site of its substation in Neudorf, a district of Dietenhofen in the district of Ansbach.
The work will start in autumn 2023 and will be completed by September 2024. In the process, the associated switchgear will be erected off-site to allow access for Wust Wind & Sonne at all times. The Markt Erlbach-based company is investing around four million euros. N-Ergie Netz is carrying out some of the necessary work itself on behalf of the company.
Special constellation in the grid area
For N-Ergie Netz, this type of cooperation is a first. The special agreement with the project developer is possible here due to the free available space in the Neudorf substation. Partly in parallel with the integration of the operating resources of Wust Wind & Sonne, N-Ergie will significantly expand its substation in Neudorf by the end of 2025, in order to be able to accommodate the steadily increasing volumes of renewable electricity in the region in the distribution network.
An efficient power grid is the prerequisite for the success of the energy transition. The lower level, the distribution grid, is particularly important. This is because almost all decentralized generation plants feed into it. N-Ergie has already made considerable efforts in recent years to integrate the 70,000 or so EEG plants into its power grid.
The further dynamic expansion of renewables, especially large and powerful solar power plants, presents the company with a very great challenge in the coming years. By 2030 alone, N-Ergie plans to invest around one billion euros in its power grid.
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