“That the biggest bottleneck in the energy transition is the overcrowded electricity grid is no longer news.
For us, strengthening and expanding the grid is paramount. What can we do to accelerate those plans?
More than ever, we need to join hands. Over the past year, we have had frequent discussions about this. That is good.
If you know each other and thus each other’s interests, you can take the right steps together.
We like to think along with you. Also about pragmatic solutions to make better use of the grids.
In the end, we all have the same goal in mind: speeding up the transition!”
“To support security of supply in Ukraine, we are supporting our colleagues TSO Ukrenergo and DSO DTEK with technical equipment.
The assistance is provided under the leadership of the Ukraine Support Task Force (USTF), which is part of non-governmental organisation ‘Energy Community’.
We are donating technical equipment that has already been used but is still in a very good condition, such as emergency generators,
high voltage equipment and a mobile switchgear.
With this, we hope to provide humanitarian support.”
“Several major successes were achieved in grid expansion in 2023.
The important construction of the SuedLink to supply the south of Germany with climate-friendly
renewable electricity and thus reduce curtailment costs finally began.
Secondly, TenneT reached an exemplary agreement for the transmission and construction of the necessary power lines in dialogue
with farmers. This new German speed is needed in expanding our grid. With the new Lower Saxony Climate
Protection Act and the Energy Transition Task Force in Lower Saxony, as well as by increasing the number
of staff in the approval authorities, we are accelerating the necessary grid expansion, the planned
expansion of renewable energies and storage, and streamlining and digitalising procedures.
In this way, we will achieve the climate targets together, create security of supply and good grids. Thank you for the excellent cooperation!”
“The transition to a sustainable economy is literally and figuratively leading to “system stress”. Chemical companies, large and small,
with far-reaching plans for sustainability, faced the limitations of the power grid. Both now and in the future. Certainty about availability
and affordability of green power, among other things, is crucial for confidence that sustainability can be achieved in the Netherlands.
In this, I am happy with TenneT as a partner that is willing to take responsibility for its own ever-changing role in a rapidly changing
and demanding energy system.”
“The key to making construction sites more sustainable lies in solving the logistical problem of sustainably charging heavy equipment on site. Thanks to the unique controlled horizontal drilling pilot that Van Gelder carried out for and with TenneT near a Natura-2000 area in Brabant, we are a step further in solving this puzzle. Not only was this pilot the first time a fully electric 235-tonne drilling rig was deployed in the Netherlands. It was also the first time that the electricity required for drilling was generated sustainably. With this pilot project, a solution to the nitrogen constraints in the expansion of energy infrastructure is really coming into sight.”
“Energy generation is changing. Just twenty years ago, wind and hydro power hardly played a role. Today, renewables account for about half of all Germany’s electricity generation.
Our electricity grids are more stable than ever. Since 2006, when generation was still dominated by fossil fuel, interruptions to our electricity supply have almost halved.
Our future supply of energy must be secure, affordable and, above all, climate-friendly. That is the goal – not only in Germany, but in the whole of Europe.
How to reach this goal is largely undisputed, too: carry on expanding renewable energy and the networks to transport the energy at a fast pace.
To do this, we need low barriers and swift approval procedures. Building infrastructure means thinking well ahead into the future. And thinking beyond national borders.
We are all connected to one other by power lines and cables and our policies should connect us all as well. The dialogue between our countries in Europe needs to be even closer in future,
as security and stability depend on us creating networks together. The Bundesnetzagentur is doing everything it can to drive expansion forward, with the energy sector, policymakers and consumers firmly in its sights.”