The Western Advisory Board invites you to an excursion to an Amprion converter station
For interested members of our cooperative, the West Advisory Board for North Rhine-Westphalia has organised an excursion to the newly constructed converter near the Meerbusch district of Osterath, in coordination with the transmission system operator Amprion. The guiding theme of the event is: “Experiencing community – Understanding the energy transition”.
As already reported in our member magazine, several major “electricity motorways” are currently under construction, some of which are expected to go into operation in 2027. Since electrical energy can be transmitted over long distances with lower losses as direct current rather than alternating current, converters are needed at the transition points to convert alternating current into direct current and vice versa.
The converter near Meerbusch-Osterath forms part of one of several planned new extra-high voltage transmission routes named “A-North & Ultranet”. The northern section between Emden and Osterath will be implemented as an underground cable using high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission. The southern section, between Osterath and Philippsburg in Baden-Württemberg, will be constructed as an overhead power line.
