specified period.

Therefore, the guaranteed rates for plants

connected in earlier years are higher than for those
connected later. This takes into account the higher
investment cost for the new technologies and supports
further research and development (for example in regards to efficiency, reliability
etc.). It also specifies a system service bonus of 0.5 cent/kWh for wind energy power
plants that are put into service before the 1st of January 2014, and are meeting a
number of requirements mentioned in the Ordinance on System Services by Wind
Energy Plants.
According to this regulation, Directional Reactive Power Undervoltage Protection (Q>& U<) must be installed.
As a guide for developers of such protection devices the FFN (committee for grid
technologies and operations within the VDE, Federation of Electro Technology
Electronics Information Technology) developed detailed requirement specifications.
The Q->& U< protection's setting values can be derived from the Technical
Guideline for Generating Plants of the Medium-Voltage Power Grid.
This document specifies the requirements according to safety and reliability for
connecting electrical energy sources to the medium voltage network. One
requirement is the dynamic grid support during voltage dips within the high voltage
network. The electrical energy source must be able to:
Stay connected to the grid during network faults
Support the system voltage by injecting a reactive current during the fault
Receive the same amount of reactive energy or less from the network after the
fault was cleared
This must be proven to the network operator with a certificate for each single unit and
.another certificate for the whole plant
In summary, the legal regulations state that renewable energy sources connected to the
medium voltage network must support the system voltage during network faults
(verified by certificate) and should they not do so, for any reason, must be