The new grid-connected installed capacity of wind power nationwide was 10.84 million kilowatts, up 72% year on year. Among them, the new installed capacity of onshore wind power is 8.694 million kilowatts, and that of offshore wind power is 2.146 million kilowatts.
In the past few days, the wind power industry has witnessed heavy news: on July 13, Sinopec’s first onshore wind power project was commenced in Weinan, Shaanxi; On July 15, the wind turbine hoisting capacity of the Three Gorges Guangdong Yangjiang Shapao Offshore Wind Power Project, the largest single offshore wind farm under construction in Asia invested and constructed by Three Gorges Energy, exceeded 1 million kilowatts, becoming the first offshore wind farm of one million kilowatts in China; On July 26, the State Power Investment Jieyang Shenquan Offshore Wind Power Project made breakthrough progress, and the first five 5.5 MW wind turbines were successfully connected to the grid for power generation.
The coming era of affordable Internet access has not hindered the upsurge of wind power investment, and the signal of a new round of rush to install is becoming clearer. Under the guidance of the “double carbon” goal, the wind power industry continues to outperform expectations
On July 28, the China Association for Science and Technology first released 10 industrial technical issues that play a leading role in industrial development, two of which are related to wind power: how to use “wind power, photovoltaic, hydropower” to accelerate the realization of carbon neutrality goals? How to overcome the difficulties of key technology research and development and engineering demonstration of floating offshore wind power?
Wind power is gradually transitioning to the “leading role” status. Earlier, a new formulation of the National Energy Administration attracted the attention of the industry – renewable energy will change from the incremental supplement of energy and power consumption to the main body of energy and power consumption increment. Obviously, in the future, China’s demand for power increment will mainly be met by renewable energy such as wind power and photovoltaic. This means that the positioning of renewable energy represented by wind power in China’s energy power system has changed fundamentally.
Carbon peak and carbon neutral are a broad and profound economic and social systemic change, which must be incorporated into the overall layout of economic and social development and ecological civilization construction. Su Wei, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at the 12th “Green Development · Low-Carbon Life” keynote forum, “We should accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, comprehensively promote the large-scale development of wind power and solar power generation, improve the ability of the grid to absorb and regulate a high proportion of renewable energy, and build a new power system with new energy as the main body.”
The press conference of the National Energy Administration held on July 28 revealed that China’s offshore wind power installed capacity exceeded that of the UK, ranking first in the world.
According to the data, by the end of June this year, the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in China had reached 971 million kilowatts. Among them, the installed capacity of wind power is 292 million kilowatts, second only to the installed capacity of hydropower (including 32.14 million kilowatts of pumped storage).
In the first half of this year, the installed capacity of wind power increased faster than expected. The national renewable energy power generation reached 1.06 trillion kWh, of which wind power was 344.18 billion kWh, up 44.6% year on year, much higher than other renewable energy. At the same time, the country’s wind power abandonment is about 12.64 billion kWh, with an average utilization rate of 96.4%, 0.3 percentage points higher than the same period in 2020.
Post time: Feb-08-2023