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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1447/annex-VIII",
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  "legislation": "eur/2016/1447",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1447 of 26 August 2016 establishing a network code on requirements for grid connection of high voltage direct current systems and direct current-connected power park modules (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1447",
  "path": "annex/VIII",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Reactive power and voltage requirements referred to in Article 48",
  "text": "Voltage range\nTime period for operation\n0.85 pu-0.90 pu\n60 minutes\n0.90 pu-1.10 pu\nUnlimited\n1.10 pu-1.12 pu\nUnlimited, unless specified otherwise by the relevant system operator, in coordination with the relevant TSO.\n1.12 pu-1.15 pu\nTo be specified by the relevant system operator, in coordination with the relevant TSO.\nTable 12: Minimum time periods for which a remote-end HVDC converter station shall be capable of operating for different voltages deviating from a reference 1 pu value without disconnecting from the network where the voltage base for pu values is from 110 kV to (not including) 300 kV.\nVoltage range\nTime period for operation\n0.85 pu-0.90 pu\n60 minutes\n0.90 pu-1.05 pu\nUnlimited\n1.05 pu-1.15 pu\nTo be specified by the relevant system operator, in coordination with the relevant TSO. Various sub-ranges of voltage withstand capability may be specified.\nTable 13: Minimum time periods for which a remote-end HVDC converter station shall be capable of operating for different voltages deviating from a reference 1 pu value without disconnecting from the network where the voltage base for pu values is from 300 kV to 400 kV (included).\nMaximum range of Q/Pmax\nMaximum range of steady-state voltage level in PU\n0.95\n0.225\nTable 14: Maximum range of both Q/Pmax and steady-state voltage for a remote-end HVDC converter station.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(2)(a)"
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      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(2)(b)"
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      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(2)(c)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(2)(d)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 13 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(3)(a)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 13 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(3)(b)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 13 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(3)(c)"
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 13 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(3)(d)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 14 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(4)(a)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in Annex 8 Table 14 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 41(4)(b)"
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