SuedLink builds underground cable route from Wilster to Bergrheinfeld/West
- Location
- Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria (route via Lower Saxony, Hesse and Thuringia) · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Project
- SuedLink 4: Wilster – Bergrheinfeld/West (558 km)
- Investment
- not quantified (no separate total cost figure for this line; operator cites roughly EUR 500 million per converter station, plus EUR 40 million EU funding for the overall project)
- Status
- Under construction
SuedLink 4 is a 558 km underground HVDC cable route from Wilster (Schleswig-Holstein) to Bergrheinfeld/West (Bavaria), with a transmission capacity of 2 gigawatts at 525 kV. According to the German network regulator (Bundesnetzagentur), planning approval for all sections was completed by October 2025, and construction is now underway along the entire route. Commissioning is planned for 2028. Update (8 Oct 2026): On 1 Jul 2026 Tennet reported the first completed section of the SuedLink route: 37 km between Scheeßel and the border of the Stade district, built since spring 2024, with four cables laid (dpa-AFX, 1 Jul 2026).
Source: transnetbw.de ↗ · Archived copy ↗
Further sources: onvista.de ↗ (Archived copy ↗)
Evidence: 2 independent sources · based on reports (not independently confirmed) · archived copy saved · How well sourced is Eurotrack?
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