The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has today published a draft of the second amendment to the site development plan 2025 (Flächenentwicklungsplan, FEP 2025). Comments may be submitted up to and including 20 July 2026. The BSH has reviewed the designations of the 2025… Read More »Site Development Plan 2025: Draft of second amendment published
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) today published an amendment to the site development plan (Flächenentwicklungsplan, FEP) 2025. The amendment and the result of the preliminary assessment on the conduct of a strategic environmental assessment can be found on… Read More »Site development plan 2025: Plan amended
In the context of the site development plan (Flächenentwicklungsplan, FEP), the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) commissioned Ramboll to analyse the energy downtime between decommissioning and follow-up use of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea and Baltic… Read More »Site development plan: Status report on decommissioning and follow-up use published
According to the Site Development Plan (Flächenentwicklungsplan – FEP) 2025, five grid connection systems will no longer run diagonally through the Artillerieschießgebiet (ASG) Nordsee, in deviation from the FEP 2023. In their report dated 30 April 2025, the transmission system operators (TSOs) presented the expected… Read More »FEP 2025, ASG decision Test procedure: TSOs submit results of detailed evaluation for the affected offshore grid connection systems
The BSH has today published a draft amendment to the site development plan 2025. The draft contains changes to the calendar years for the realisation of sites N‑10.1, N‑10.2, N‑12.4, N‑12.5, N‑13.1, N‑13.2 and N‑6.8, for the NOR‑6‑4 and NOR‑12‑3 offshore connection systems, and the… Read More »Site development plan 2025: Draft amendment published for consultation
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) today announced the decision on the new route of the grid connection systems NOR-11-1, NOR-11-2, NOR-12-1, NOR-12-2 and NOR-13-1 with the approval of the Marinekommando. The BSH decision, the report of the transmission… Read More »Site Development Plan 2025: Decision on the route of the offshore grid connection systems NOR-11-1, NOR-11-2, NOR-12-1, NOR-12-2 and NOR-13-1
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) has conditionally defined the routes for the offshore grid connection systems NOR-11-1, NOR-11-2, NOR-12-1, NOR-12-2 and NOR-13-1 in the site development plan 2025 (Flächenentwicklungsplan 2025, FEP 2025). In order to rule out any… Read More »Site development plan 2025 – Conditional determination of cable routes to bypass the Artillerieschießgebiet Nordsee: Publication of the transmission system operators’ report
Revisions of the datasets “Database of Geotechnical Surveys” and “Cone Penetration Tests (CPT)” were added in the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites (PINTA) for site N-10.1 and N-10.2 on 27 March 2025. Furthermore, “Database of the Geotechnical Surveys” was replaced for site N-10.1. The… Read More »Revisions available in the Data Hub PINTA for site N-10.1 and N-10.2
Annex 3 of the site development plan 2025 shows a variant of future determinations in areas N-14 to N-20 (under review) in zones 4 and 5 of the North Sea EEZ for information. In preparation of the upcoming revision procedure, the BSH provides an opportunity… Read More »Site development plan: List of questions in preparation of the upcoming procedure
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) is today publishing the site development plan 2025 (Flächenentwicklungsplan, FEP) and the associated environmental reports. The documents are published on the BSH website.