Vattenfall to Offer 200 MW of Balancing Power from German Offshore Wind Farm

Vattenfall is bringing 200 MW of balancing capacity from the 416 MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm in the German North Sea to the electricity market. The company says this is the largest amount of balancing power ever made available by an offshore wind farm.

The wind farm underwent a prequalification process within the control area of ​​the transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT.

Balancing power helps transmission system operators maintain the grid frequency at 50 hertz when electricity generation and consumption deviate from forecasts. Operators can call on reserve capacity to correct these imbalances and keep the system stable.

In 2022, Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 1 became the country’s first offshore wind farm to provide balancing power. RWE prequalified 60 MW from Amrumbank West for secondary reserve last year, while Trianel’s Borkum I began supplying around 70 MW of negative secondary control reserve in July 2026.

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