— APPLICATION NOTE ABB STATCOMs help fulfill the Grid Code of the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, UK— The shift towards distributed renewable electricity generation results in new challenges to the power grid. Grid Codes have been amended to reflect these additional challenges. From a Grid Code perspective, onshore and offshore Wind Power Plants (WPP) consisting of many Wind Turbine Generators (WTG) are seen as one system comparable to a conventional power plant. Grid Code requirements have to be fulfilled for these WPPs. Due to limitations in WTG capability and limitations in cable export capability additional dynamic reactive compensation is required to meet Grid Code demands. 3 Westermost Rough Wind Farm The Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm has been deve

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