Thinh, Nguyen XuanSander, LeonKopec, JakobMühlnickel, KaiPage, BerndFleischer, Andreas G.Göbel, JohannesWohlgemuth, Volker2019-09-162019-09-162013https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/25917In this paper we describe shortly Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia as study areas and the legal framework, both in the context of natural resource impacts of high-voltage overhead lines. We then conduct the buffer analysis of a GIS dataset in order to investigate natural resource impacts of existing high-voltage overhead lines in the two mentioned study areas. The paper is based upon the first results of the interdisciplinary research and development project "Power Network Planning" funded as part of the 6th Energy research program "Research for an environmentally friendly, reliable and affordable energy supply" by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).Text/Conference Paper