“Contingency payments for wind power on the rise”
Die Welt
Grid operator TenneT has paid 295 million euros in contingency payments to wind power operators in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein in 2015 because their electricity could not be transported through congested grids, Olaf Preuß writes in Die Welt. Wind park operators receive up to 95 percent of their guaranteed feed-in tariff if they are ordered to turn off their turbines because the generated power cannot be transported. This happens most often in the area along the coast.
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Find background information in the CLEW factsheet on Re-dispatch costs in the German power grid.
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