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Germany cannot sustain pace of offshore grid work, warns TenneT
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21/11/2011
By Kelvin Ross
Deputy Editor

Transmission system operator TenneT has told the German government that it
cannot continue with the country's programme to connect offshore wind farms
to the grid.
The company claims that it has reached saturation point of "human, material
and financial resources".
TenneT has written to the German Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry
of Economics and the Federal Environment Ministry to warn them that "the
construction of connecting cables for offshore wind farms in the North Sea
is no longer advisable and possible under current conditions and in the
current speed".
Currently, there are nine projects in preparation to connect wind farms in
the German North Sea, and TenneT says it will honour these contracts.
However it told the government that "if additional offshore wind farms are
to be connected, general conditions must be improved"
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