Substation Osterath

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Substation Osterath
Main building with electronics store

Main building with electronics store

Data
place Meerbusch - Osterath
Client Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk
Construction year 1911
Coordinates 51 ° 15 '36.9 "  N , 6 ° 37' 33.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '36.9 "  N , 6 ° 37' 33.5"  E
Substation Osterath (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Substation Osterath
Outdoor area with switchgear

The substation Osterath (including substation or transformer station Osterath called) is a substation and switchgear of the transmission system operator Amprion on the southern edge of the Meerbuscher district Osterath .

The station that both the maximum voltage - transmission network as well as in the high voltage is involved distribution grid, is already one of the largest such plants in North Rhine-Westphalia. As part of the German energy transition and the associated power grid expansion , the plant will a HVDC - converter station be expanded and developed into one of the largest plants in Europe.

Amprion has made a side area of ​​the system available for an electrotechnical museum, the electrical library.

history

Creation and expansion

Former Osterath electricity works , machine and boiler house
( 51 ° 16 ′ 19.4 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 19.7 ″  E )

The system goes back to 1911, the early days of electrification in Germany. At that time, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk (RWE) built the transformer station as a 25 kilovolt system together with a small electricity company (see picture) near the Osterath train station.

A few years later, in 1917, the station was upgraded from 25 kV to a voltage of 110 kV and expanded to become a hub in Germany's first network . This network ran as a ring from the Rhenish lignite district (via Brauweiler and Erftwerk Grevenbroich , Berggeist power plant , Vorgebirgszentrale ...), the Bergisches Land (via Reisholz power plant ), the Ruhr area (via Duisburg-Lintorf, RWE headquarters in Essen, Hamborn power plant, Bonifatius power plant , Hattingen community power station ...), the Niederrhein region ( Niederrhein power station , Wesel) and via Osterath back to the Rheinische Revier.

In 2003 the plant, together with the entire RWE transmission network, was transferred to the subsidiary RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH , which became the independent Amprion in 2009 .

Until 2012, the Frimmersdorf power plant fed in with Units E and F in Osterath. The Neurath power plant is expected to feed in at the 220 kV level until Unit A is shut down on December 31, 2021.

From 2008, the plant was expanded to include a 380 kV system, which was built west of Gruttorfer Weg.

Expansion plans

Osterath as a hub in line expansion according to EnLAG
Osterath as a hub in line expansion in accordance with BBPlG

The Osterath substation is an important hub in the Amprion transmission network. The facility in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area is being expanded and expanded for four legally established pipeline projects:

Converter station

For the HVDC line projects A-Nord and Ultranet , the construction of a converter station in Osterath with a connection to the AC grid is planned. The location decision for the approximately 10- hectare double converter, which must be in the vicinity of the existing substation, was controversial for a long time with broad participation by the population; a preliminary decision was made in September 2018. At first, Amprion examined six possible locations; in the later selection only locations in Dormagen , Kaarst and Meerbusch were included, with great resistance from the population at all locations. After the location in Dormagen was no longer favored, the network operator Amprion announced in September 2018 that its decision had been made in favor of the location in Meerbusch-Osterath and that it had submitted its decision to the Federal Network Agency for the final decision.

Amprion submitted the documents for approval in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act to the competent approval authority at the Rhein-Kreis Neuss in early 2020 .

criticism

Critics fear that the new station will increase the exposure of residents to noise , traffic , ozone and " electrosmog " as well as impairment of the landscape due to the high converter hall and additional overhead line masts . They question the necessity of the new station and doubt that it should primarily serve to transmit electricity from renewable energies. They suspect that instead primarily electricity from coal-fired power plants should be fed in and therefore demand that the station be located near the Rhenish lignite mining area. Furthermore, the incoming and outgoing lines should not be designed as overhead lines , but as underground cables .

For the reasons mentioned above, a citizens' initiative has been formed against the expansion of the facility . Citizens and local politicians of all parties represented in the city council criticize the in their view insufficient transparency and public participation in planning. They are demanding more information from Amprion, the Federal Network Agency (as the responsible planning and supervisory authority) and the Federal Government , greater consideration of local issues and a review of the plan, up to and including a complete halt to the construction project.

The city of Meerbusch rejects the location for the converter station in Osterath. In 2013 it filed a constitutional complaint against the statutory definition of the grid connection point and refused to agree to the application for approval for the construction of converters .

technical structure

A large number of high-voltage lines at voltage levels 110, 220 and 380 kilovolts converge in the facility.

The 220 and 380 kV systems are controlled by Amprion , and the 110 kV systems are controlled by the distribution network operator Westnetz .

Network operator tension Name of the circuit Route
(site
number)		 Destination / station Construction year Cardinal
direction
Amprion logo.svg
Amprion 		380 kV Knechtsteden West 4588 Gohrpunkt → Rommerskirchen station 1971 south
Meerbusch West 4123 Selbeck + Rath northwest
Toeppersee West Utfort
220 kV Spruce grove west 2388 Stainless steel Krefeld
Spruce grove east Dülken + Utfort
Neurath 1a 4588 Gohrpunkt → Neurath power plant 1971 south
Osterath West Gohrpunkt
Frixheim North Gohrpunkt → Rommerskirchen
Gellep West 2364 Gellep east
Stratum east Mündelheim + Rheinhausen
Western network 110 kV
Krefeld West 2388 Stainless steel Krefeld northwest
Krefeld East St. Tönis
Lank West 2364 Lank → Mündelheim east
Lank East
Willich North 0929 I want to west
Büttgen West Mönchengladbach
Kaarst West 4588 Gohrpunkt south
Büderich North Buderich

Web links

Commons : Umspannanlage Osterath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Jan Popp-Sewing: Converter threatens Osterath . In: Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf-Meerbusch edition) . October 8, 2012 ( full text. Rp-online.de, online archive of the Rheinische Post).
  2. ^ A b Annika Barth: Milestones of Electricity. The substation and electrical store are celebrating their anniversary. Westdeutsche Zeitung (online edition wz-newsline.de), October 16, 2011, accessed on October 10, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Schuhkecht: Anniversaries under power . In: Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf-Meerbusch edition) . October 15, 2011 ( full text. Rp-online.de, online archive of the Rheinische Post).
  4. ^ Esther Mai: Former RWE building . In: Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf-Meerbusch edition) . August 3, 2012 ( full text. Rp-online.de, online archive of the Rheinische Post).
  5. ↑ Walther Beyer: Krefeld (=  Germany's urban development ). 2nd Edition. Dari-Verlag, 1928, p. 112 .
  6. ↑ Water Management Association of Austrian Industry, German Water Management Association in the Czechoslovak Republic, Association for River and Canal Shipping (ed.): Water Management and Technology . tape 24 . Vienna 1931, p. 48 .
  7. ^ Turbinentechnische Gesellschaft Berlin (ed.): Journal for the entire turbine industry: in connection with water and heat management . tape 17 . Oldenbourg, 1920, p. 142 .
  8. ↑ Beatrix Van Vlodrop: High voltage pulls through Osterath . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . August 21, 2008 ( full text. Wz-newsline.de, online archive of the Westdeutsche Zeitung).
  9. ↑ converter. Amprion, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Gohr almost ideal. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , June 17, 2014
  11. ↑ Converter: Kaarst is first, Gohr second choice. In: Rheinische Post , December 4, 2014.
  12. ↑ 4700 signatures against the power converter. In: Rheinische Post , September 15, 2014
  13. ↑ 1800 form a human chain against converter construction. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , March 3, 2013.
  14. ↑ Network operator Amprion favors Osterath as a location In: Rheinische Post , September 21, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018
  15. ↑ Kaarst probably spared the converter In: Rheinische Post . September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2018
  16. ↑ Converter location. Amprion, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Angelika Kirchholtes: Substation: Energiewende in Osterath . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . September 5, 2012 ( full text. Wz-newsline.de, online archive of the Westdeutsche Zeitung).
  18. ^ Jan Popp-Sewing: Electricity station for 390 million . In: Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf-Meerbusch edition) . September 7, 2012 ( full text. Rp-online.de, online archive of the Rheinische Post).
  19. ↑ Welcome. Citizens' initiative Pro Erdkabel Neuss-Reuschenberg, accessed on October 12, 2012 .
  20. ↑ Constitutional complaint - new chapter in converter crime. In: Rheinische Post . July 27, 2013, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  21. ↑ City Amprions rejects the request. In: Rheinische Post . April 2, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Powerland: high voltage lines in Germany. André Joost, accessed October 12, 2012 .