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25.07.2019 |

Press Release

50Hertz participates in “Regulatory Sandboxes of the Energy Transition”

50Hertz seeks to share its expertise with the Regulatory Sandboxes of the Energy Transition. These Regulatory Sandboxes are the twenty winners of a national idea contest that were announced last week by Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier. Among these are two research projects in which 50Hertz is involved as an associated partner.

17.07.2019 |

Press Release

Significantly more wind and solar power generated in eastern Germany

The offshore substation and wind turbines of the offshore wind farm Arkona in the Baltic Sea. Photo: 50Hertz/Jan Pauls

In the first half of 2019, more wind and solar power was generated in the 50Hertz grid area than in the same period last year.

26.06.2019 |

Press Release

Stefan Kapferer appointed as new 50Hertz CEO

New 50Hertz CEO Stefan Kapferer (right) and Elia Group CEO Chris Peeters. Picture: Jan Pauls

The 50Hertz supervisory board has appointed Stefan Kapferer as the company’s new CEO at yesterday’s meeting. Kapferer, the current chairperson of the executive board and member of the presidium of the German Energy and Water Association (BDEW), will take up his activities on 1 January 2020 at the latest.

20.06.2019

OKTO Acoustics wins the third edition of the Open Innovation Challenge

Representatives of the winner OKTO with the jury members as well as Chris Peeters, CEO of the Elia Group, and Dr. Frank Golletz, CEO of 50Hertz. Photo: Jan Pauls/50Hertz

The start-up OKTO Acoustics has won the third edition of the Elia Group Open Innovation Challenge of Elia and 50Hertz. At the closing event of the competition today in Berlin, the company from the danish capital Copenhagen prevailed against four other finalists.

13.06.2019 |

Press Release

System operators launch Connect+ project to exchange redispatch data

On 6 June 2019, four transmission and 16 distribution system operators launched the Connect+ project in order to jointly meet the challenges presented by the implementation of the Grid Expansion Acceleration Act (NABEG). In this act, the legislator has established that in future, all installations for the generation or storage of electrical energy with a nominal power as of 100 kilowatts can be...

06.06.2019

50Hertz Yearbook Published & CSR Website Online

50Hertz employees work on the Arkona offshore substation. Photo: Jan Pauls

"Setting the pace for a successful energy transition" - this is the headline of the newly published 50Hertz Yearbook. It summarizes the most important company activities and key figures for 2018 and provides information for the first time in accordance with the high-quality sustainability reporting standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

23.05.2019 |

Press Release

"Good Practice of the Year Award" for Combined Grid Solution

Representatives of the award winners, of the jury, of RGI and the European Commission after the award ceremony in Copenhagen. Photo: RGI

Today (23 May), the innovative interconnector concept Combined Grid Solution of electricity transmission system operators 50Hertz (Germany) and Energinet (Denmark) received the "Good Practice of the Year Award" of the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI).

16.04.2019 |

Press Release

Grid connection Ostwind 1 supplies consumers with offshore wind power

The offshore substation Arkona in the middle of the wind farm. Photo: Siegfried Wagner/50Hertz

The transmission system operator 50Hertz has connected the offshore wind farms Wikinger (operator: Iberdrola) and Arkona (operators: E.ON and Equinor) off the island of Rügen to its transmission grid just in time for their commissioning and below the originally calculated budget, for the benefit of the grid customers. After three years of construction and a total investment volume of appro...