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14.12.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

Sylvia Borcherding to be new Chief HR Officer at 50Hertz

Sylvia Borcherding will start her new position at the transmission system operator on 1 January 2019. Photo: Jan Pauls

As of 1 January 2019, Sylvia Borcherding will be the new 50Hertz Chief Human Resources Officer. On 4 December, she was appointed by the Board of Directors at the recommendation of the Industrial Union for Mining, Chemistry and Energy (IG BCE) and made a member of the Extended Management Team.

05.12.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

Boris Schucht hands over the baton

Boris Schucht will manage the 50Hertz company until 28 February 2019, as he has decided to take on new professional challenges. This is what Boris Schucht and the 50Hertz Supervisory Board as well as the shareholders Elia and KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) have mutually agreed upon on 4 December.

29.11.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

50Hertz awards contract for Ostwind 2 grid connection to NKT-Boskalis Consortium

50Hertz has awarded the contract for the manufacture and installation of three 220 kV alternating current cables (220 kV HVAC cables) for the Ostwind 2 project to a consortium of Danish cable manufacturer NKT and Dutch installation company Boskalis. The order is worth approximately 550 million euros.

23.11.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

Elia Group publishes vision paper

Elia Group has published a vision paper on the electricity system of the future, in which the end user plays an active and central role. Towards a Consumer-Centric System encourages consumers (households and industries) to directly benefit from advanced energy services via a real-time communication platform, an appropriate market design and digital innovations.

20.11.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

Utilisation before limitation: WindNODE flexibility platform begins trial operation

Presentation of the flexibility platform in Berlin (l.t.r.): Dr. Sandra Maeding (Stromnetz Berlin), Dr. Georg Meyer-Braune (50Hertz), Markus Graebig (WindNODE), Dr. Dirk Biermann (50Hertz), Thomas Schäfer (Stromnetz Berlin), Dr. Frank Büchner (Siemens), Andreas Keil (energy2market) und Thomas Tappertzhofen (GreenCycle). Photo: Jan Pauls

50Hertz, four distribution system operators and other partners have launched the flexibility platform in the WindNODE project. On this digital procurement platform, consumers, producers and storage facility operators offer their services on a regionally appropriate and time-shifted basis so that less renewable energy has to be regulated in case of grid congestions.

08.11.2018 |

Projektmeldung

Combined Grid Solution: Successful test of Offshore cable in the Baltic Sea

The Kriegers Flak – Combined Grid Solution has reached another important milestone: Yesterday, German 50Hertz and Danish Energinet have successfully accomplished the 24 hours tests of both of the offshore cables connecting the Danish platform of the Kriegers Flak windpark with the German platform Baltic 2.

29.10.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

Ostwind 1: Offshore Windfarm Wikinger supplies to 50Hertz grid

Transmission system operator 50Hertz is making good progress for the Ostwind 1 offshore grid connection project, which started in 2015. After three years of construction, the submarine cable has been laid between the Wikinger offshore wind farm (Iberdrola) north of Rügen island and the connection point to the 50Hertz grid in Lubmin.

16.10.2018 |

Pressemitteilung

More renewables - more grid development

The 9th EEG Conference of 50Hertz also dealt with the discontinuation of support for older RES instalations. Image by: Jan Pauls

More than 140 participants gathered today at the ninth EEG Conference held by transmission system operator 50Hertz in Berlin to discuss this year’s energy policy developments regarding the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) as well as long-term subjects.