NEWS20 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann
Clean Energy Wire
For the first time, offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country’s electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The offshore wind farm Riffgrund 1, operated by Danish energy company Orsted, will act as a so-called secondary reserve for the grid, meaning “offshore wind power is just as reliable as power coming from conventional plants,” Orsted Germany head Jörg Kubitza said. Offshore wind turbines are among the most reliable renewable power technologies and have become economically competitive system stabilisers, which had previously been the domain of conventional power plants, Kubitza added. “Offshore wind power is a foundation of Germany’s energy transition and contributes to supply security at many levels,” he said. Raphael Hirtz of planning company Energy2market called the provision of control energy by wind turbines “a milestone of the energy transition” that demonstrates renewables can “to a large extent” sustain a stable power system after Germany has ended coal and nuclear power production.
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