{"id":234404,"date":"2025-10-23T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234404\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:42:09","slug":"power-lines-shaped-as-animal-sculptures-supply-energy-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234404\/","title":{"rendered":"power lines shaped as animal sculptures supply energy in austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animal sculptures double as concept power lines in austria<\/p>\n

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Concept power lines shaped as animal<\/a> sculptures<\/a> can supply energy across the nine states in Austria. Dubbed the Austrian Power Giants, these electricity structures are molded depending on the animal representing the state. Take the stork, a long-necked wading bird, which represents Burgenland for its annual stork migration, with Rust being considered a city of storks. Then, there\u2019s the stag, the animal symbol for the wooded foothills of the Alps in Lower Austria. The nine federal states where the design teams hope to install the power lines shaped as animal sculptures include Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, and Vienna.<\/p>\n

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all images courtesy of Austrian Power Grid<\/p>\n

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Stork and stag energy lines have been designed for pretesting<\/p>\n

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The design<\/a> teams<\/a> \u2013 a collaboration between the companies<\/a> Austrian Power Grid, GP designpartners and BauCon \u2013 say that the stork and stag designs have already been developed and pre-tested for structural stability and high-voltage performance to check whether producing power lines shaped as animal structures is even possible. They expect that these nature-inspired designs can increase \u2018public acceptance of grid expansion projects in their respective regions\u2019 and become symbols of fauna-themed infrastructure. They add that traditional power line designs are not publicly well-received across the country\u2019s regions, so by crafting animal sculptures as power lines, they hope that their reception will be more positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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For them, it\u2019s a way fo the towering infrastructure to \u2018harmonize with nature\u2019 and \u2018to strengthen the economic and tourism location in the regions and ultimately lead to increased acceptance of grid expansion projects by the general public.\u2019 So far, only two of these Austrian Power Giants, the stork and the stag, have been designed for pretesting to see if they can be built and if their structural and electrical engineering are feasible. The miniature models of the Austrian Power Giants are set to be on display for public viewing at the Red Dot Museum in Singapore until October 2026, after having received the Red Dot Award 2025 for concept design in electrification and decarbonization.<\/p>\n

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view of the stork sculpture<\/p>\n

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view of the stag sculpture<\/p>\n

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two of these concept power lines have been designed for pretesting<\/p>\n

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the design teams hope to install the infrastructure across the nine states in Austria<\/p>\n

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project info:<\/p>\n

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name: Austrian Power Giants<\/p>\n

companies: Austrian Power Grid<\/a>, GP designpartners<\/a>, BauCon<\/a> | @gpdesignpartners<\/a><\/p>\n