At the Wolmirstedt substation near Magdeburg, transmission system operator 50Hertz held the groundbreaking ceremony which marked the first day of construction of the SuedOstLink's first converter. The ceremony was attended by Dr Robert Habeck, the German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and Dr Reiner Haseloff, the Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt, as well as many other guests of honour. The SuedOstLink is one of the most important grid development projects for the German #energytransition. The converter, which will be about the size of a sports hall, will convert alternating current from the surrounding extra-high-voltage grid into direct current.