The eastern German transmission system operator 50Hertz has handed over environmental data on the planned Südostlink power line to the responsible authorities in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. As the company announced, the information is now publicly accessible in the databases of the state environmental agencies.
For the planning of the approximately 267-kilometre-long route between Wolmirstedt (Saxony-Anhalt) and Thuringia's state border with Bavaria, 50Hertz recorded the occurrence of protected animal species between 2020 and 2024. Birds, reptiles, amphibians, bats, wildcats, hamsters and insects were documented along a corridor of 500 meters to the left and right of the planned line. In total, more than 40,000 data records on around 330 protected species were collected.
