50Hertz grants €650 M of contracts for SuedOstLink
Transmission system operator 50Hertz contracted out all services for the civil engineering of the SuedOstLink DC connection.

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Germany: Transmission system operator 50Hertz contracted out all services for the civil engineering of the SuedOstLink DC connection that will run through Saxony-Anhalt. The orders for the line section of some 170 km in length are worth around €650 million.
The contracts secure the construction of link, which is important for the energy transition, in sections A1 and A2 through Saxony-Anhalt. The contracts concern crossings underneath water bodies, roads or railways, open trench construction and the purchase of cable conduits.
Orders worth approximately €530 million were placed for the open trench construction and smaller horizontal direction drilling (HDD) operations. At the start of the year, these were awarded to PORR, located in Rangsdorf, near Berlin, to medium-sized company Franz Kassecker and to Max Bögl, with branches in Leipzig and Gera, as well as to Wolff & Müller from Dresden. Of the orders, more than two thirds were placed with companies with offices in eastern Germany. Several other contracts were awarded in 2024.
Selected individual construction measures started in Saxony-Anhalt in the autumn of 2024. The work was approved in advance by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA, Bundesnetzagentur) and parallel to the ongoing planning approval procedure.
Construction work along the line length will start as soon as the planning approval decisions have been made. 50Hertz anticipates that this will be the in March for sections A1 and A2 next March. The SuedOstLink should become operational in 2027.
Source: Renewables Now