Germany's wind energy is to be transferred from the north to the south via a fourth electricity highway, the Federal Network Agency said on Tuesday.
A direct current connection between the far northern state of Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia in the west is required, the regulator said in Bonn.
The authority had examined a proposal from the network operators who wanted to build the additional route from Schleswig-Holstein to Baden-Wuerttemberg in the south-west. The Network Agency is for a shorter route to North Rhine-Westphalia.
In addition, the authority advocates the expansion of alternating current connections, which have shorter lines.
The route corridor for the new electricity highway goes from Heide in Schleswig-Holstein via Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony to Polsum and Uentrop in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The exact route between these places is still unclear: It will only be determined in a later procedure and it is expected take a long time.
At the request of the network operators, the route was to go to Altbach in Baden-Wuerttemberg, but this was rejected by the Network Agency.
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