Citizens demand solar energy instead of new power lines

ELECTRIC POWER DEBATE

The power system operators shall publish the first 500 submissions to the planning of future routes. The main argument: too many offshore wind farms, solar energy on too little land.

1500 comments were received during the planning process for future routes.
Many citizens do not believe in the meaning of the new wind farms in the sea. Therefore, they are against it, to build thousands of kilometers of new power lines across Germany. This is the main objection to the total of 1500 observations in the planning process for future routes.

The four operating companies of the high voltage network for electricity are proposing to build four major pipelines from the North and Baltic Sea to southern Germany. The cables are primarily used to conduct electricity from offshore wind farms in southern metropolitan centers like Munich and Stuttgart.


All Germans were able to participate in the process. But only 1500 people and organizations have done this. One of them is Hartmut Lindner of the Citizens' Initiative "under current biosphere" Chorin in Brandenburg. His position, he summarizes this way: "When you take into account the decentralized power generation more, would take from the need to develop the network." Lindner says the federal government and the power companies would underestimate the potential of renewable energy in the country.

Professor credited with significantly higher solar energy generation

Resembles the Quaschning Volker, a professor of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He said the Government was wrong when she in 2050 with a generating capacity of solar energy by up to 79 gigawatts (79 billion watts) count. Would sink because the costs of solar production, the price of conventionally generated electricity but continued climb, it will be installed for the Germans attractive, own solar power plants. Quaschning holds a solar generating up to 200 gigawatts in 2050 to be possible. Thus, the proposed north-south high-voltage lines are partially redundant. Other arguments relate to environmental protection.