Grid

Curtailment

A deliberate reduction of the power injected by a generating installation, imposed by the grid operator when the local grid is constrained, or chosen at the design stage. Curtailed energy simply does not exist: it can be neither injected nor shared, and no sharing agreement recovers it.

Also known as: clipping, output curtailment

Source: ORES

Terms used in this definition

• Sharing agreement

In the same category

• Capacity tariff
• Capacity term
• Dual-rate tariff
• EAN code
• Exclusive-night meter
• Flexibility
• Flexible connection
• Fluvius
• GRD
• GRT
• Incentive network pricing
• Injection
• Net deliverable capacity
• Prosumer tariff
• Sibelga
• Supply point

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