312 MW Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm to supply balancing capacity to German grid

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312 MW Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, developed by Ørsted, has become the first German offshore wind project with generated electricity fed into the German electricity grid of Tennet in a system-stabilizing manner. 

Energy2market and Ørsted have worked together to make the electricity from the wind farm usable as a balancing capacity for the power grid. The prequalification indicated by TenneT was granted and the wind project showed that short-term grid fluctuations could be offset by electricity from offshore wind energy.

In addition, the Borkum Riifrund 1 wind asset is based on the prequalification concept specified by Energy2market. This also convinced the other three German transmission system operators, and the project was approved for all four control areas. 

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