Location and Design of the Onshore Facilities

South of Rødvig the two offshore transmission cables will be connected with two onshore cables. One cable will connect to the existing high voltage substation in Bjæverskov and the other cable will connect to the existing high voltage substa-tion in Ishøj. A new stasubsta-tion must be built somewhere along the cable route to counter the so-called reactive power which occurs in AC power cables.

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The investigated area onshore is approximately 100 km long and consists of a 300 m wide corridor in which the cable route for the underground cables will be located.

A new high voltage substation must be constructed in connection with the cable installation. Two proposed locations for a new high voltage substation have been investigated. In the project proposal (proposal A) the new substation will be cated at Tolstrup Gårde southwest of Herfølge. Today the area is an open field lo-cated close to the Køge-Næstved railway at the South Motorway exit 34. Ener-ginet.dk has applied for this solution. As the location of the substation is in open land, The National Forest and Nature Agency has required Energinet.dk to exam-ine an alternative in an industrial area included in an urban area development plan in Bjæverskov adjacent to the existing high voltage substation in Bjæverskov.

The alternative (proposal B) has been described and analysed in the same level of detail as the project proposal in this ES.

Energinet.dk has assessed the cost of locating the substation in Tolstrup Gårde to be 65 million DKK lower than the location in Bjæverskov West, as the substation in Tolstrup Gårde – amongst others – will result in a shorter cable route and thus less loss of energy from the offshore wind farm to the substation. Furthermore lo-cation of the new substation at Tolstrup Gårde will imply, that the onshore cable installation will contribute to an improvement of the Zealandic power grid. That would not be the case, if the substation is located in Bjæverskov West.

Depending on the location chosen for the substation, two different proposals for routing the ground cable must be considered. However, the majority of the cable route (about 2/3 of the cable route) will be identical in either proposal. Only about one third of the cable route will change depending on the location chosen for the new substation.

The onshore facility affects nine municipalities as shown in Figure 2-6.

Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm. Environmental Statement, Part 1 – Non Technical Summary page 14 Figure 2-6. Overview of the municipalities which will be affected by the onshore facilities for

Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm.

Proposal A (project proposal): New substation Tolstrup Gårde Proposal A is to locate a new high voltage substation at Tolstrup Gårde south of Herfølge. This proposal is shown in Figure 2-7. Immediately north of the new substation Tolstrup Gårde two variations of the cable route have been investigat-ed: Herfølge western route and Herfølge eastern route. Only one of the two routes will be implemented if proposal A is selected.

Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm. Environmental Statement, Part 1 – Non Technical Summary page 15 Figure 2-7 Proposal A (the project proposal) for the new onshore facilities includes a new

sub-station at Tolstrup Gårde (large red dot) and expansion of existing subsub-stations (small red dot in circle). The figure also shows junctions which are geographical reference points that may be used for orientation purposes (black squares). Thin red line shows 220kV cable and bold red line shows 400Kv cable.

From the landfall of the two offshore transmission cables south of Rødvig a con-nection to the existing power grid must be made to deliver the power to the grid.

At landfall the two offshore transmission cables are connected to the two onshore cables. The connection itself will be located underground and will not be visible.

The only visible component will be a pit with access to the joint.

The two underground cables are routed from landfall in two parallel cable trench-es to the new substation Tolstrup Gårde. From there one underground cable is routed to the existing substation at Bjæverskov where it is connected to the exist-ing high voltage power grid. The other underground cable is routed north to

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station Ishøj, and subsequently connected to the existing high voltage power grid at substation Hovegård.

Figure 2-8. Proposal A: The location of the new substation Tolstrup Gårde south of Slimmin-gevej near South Motorway (E47) exit 34.

Substation Tolstrup Gårde will be located south of Slimmingevej near exit 34 on the South Motorway (E47) (Figure 2-8.). The area required for the substation is about 5 ha. Figure 2-9 shows a visualisation of what a new substation at Tolstrup Gårde might look like.

Substation Tolstrup Gårde will be built as an outdoor substation facility with most of the technical components of the substation will be outdoors. The substa-tion will be built with underground cables only so that no overhead power lines will be visible to and from the substation

In addition to the technical components, the substation will include a building expected to cover about 360 m² and be about 6 m tall. Construction will also in-clude a parking lot covering approximately 500 m². Finally, access roads, and roads for internal cables between the different parts of the installation will be built.

Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm. Environmental Statement, Part 1 – Non Technical Summary page 17 Figure 2-9. Visualisation of what a new substation Tolstrup Gårde might look like.

Figure 2-10. Partial view of an outdoor substation of the same type as the new substation Tol-strup Gårde. The high voltage installation itself is seen in the foreground and in the back ground are the lightning rod.

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The tallest components of the substation will be the lightning arresters; the masts of the lightning arresters are expected to be about 28 m tall. A partial view of a similar outdoor substation is show in Figure 2-10.

The project also includes establishing a new 220 kV transformer area at the exist-ing substation Bjæverskov. The transformer area will be in the eastern part of the existing substation area. Technical changes to the existing substation will also be necessary. Finally, access roads and roads for internal cables between the new in-stallations will be built inside the current substation area.

Like the expansion at substation Bjæverskov, the expansions of substation Ishøj and substation Hovegård will be contained within the current substation areas.

Seen from the outside, only the lightning arresters of the expansion will be visi-ble. At substation Ishøj, the plan is to install of one additional transformer and one additional shunt reactor inside the substation area. At substation Hovegård the plan is to install one additional shunt reactor inside the substation area.

Proposal B (alternative): New Substation at Bjæverskov Vest

Proposal B (the alternative to the project proposal) is show in Figure 2-11. Pro-posal B differs from proPro-posal A in that the new substation is located immediately adjacent to the existing high voltage substation at Bjæverskov (Figure 2-12). Con-sequently the two underground cables will run parallel from landfall at Rødvig and all the way to substation Bjæverskov. A new substation in the Bjæverskov Vest area (proposal B) will be of substantially the same design as the new substa-tion described for proposal A.

Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm. Environmental Statement, Part 1 – Non Technical Summary page 19 Figure 2-11. Proposal B (the alternative proposal) for the new onshore facilities includes a new

substation at Bjæverskov Vest (large red dot) and expansion of existing substations (small red dot in circle). The figure also shows junctions which are geographical reference points that may be used for orientation purposes (black squares). Thin red line shows 220kV cable and bold red line shows 400Kv cable.

One of the two underground cables will be connected to the existing high voltage power grid at substation Bjæverskov as in proposal A. The other underground ca-ble will continue northeast to substation Ishøj. Between Bjæverskov and Salby two possible cable routes have been investigated: – the Regnemark northern route and the Regnemark southern route. Only one of the two routes will be im-plemented if proposal B is selected for the project.

Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm. Environmental Statement, Part 1 – Non Technical Summary page 20 Figure 2-12. Proposal B includes building a new substation at Bjæverskov Vest. The substation

will be located immediately west of the existing substation in Bjæverskov.