Berlin - Last week’s stormy conditions in the 50Hertz grid area led to a very high feed-in of wind-generated electricity. On the evening of Sunday, 22 February, a new record was made: never before could so much wind power be taken up by our system and never before did so few wind turbines need to be curtailed.

1 October 2021 is the date on which renewable energy plants are to be used in Germany for the so-called redispatch to eliminate bottlenecks in the power grid. For this, generation on one side of the grid bottleneck will be reduced and generation on the other side of the bottleneck increased.