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Capacity of China's 1st massive wind power base hits 2 gW

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-26 11:33

Capacity of China's 1st massive wind power base hits 2 gW

Photo taken on Dec 25 shows workers of China Datang Corporation install a 200-mW wind power unit in Yumen city in northwestern China's Gansu province. The installed capacity of China's first massive wind power base in northwestern Gansu province reached two gW, local authorities said Friday.[Xinhua]

The installed capacity of China's first massive wind power base in northwestern Gansu province reached two gW, local authorities said Friday.

The Jiuquan wind power base achieved the landmark capacity as China Datang Corporation, one of China's power giants, installed a 200-mW wind power unit in Yumen city under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan city, said Wu Shengxue, deputy head of Jiuquan's Reform and Development Commission.

The wind power base, which consists of 8 groups of power plants, is planned to be the first of its kind to have a capacity of more than 10 gW. According to a plan of China's National Energy Administration, its capacity is expected to reach 12.71 gW in 2015.

The plan included five other wind power bases of over 10-gW capacity. A wind power base of 20 gW and another of 30 gW are to be built in east and west Inner Mongolia. Two other bases, each having a 10-gW capacity, are respectively planned in eastern Jiangsu province and northern Hebei province. One more wind power base of 20 gW is to be built in northwestern Xinjiang.

China would have a wind power capacity of more than 100 gW or 3 percent of the country's overall consumption by 2020, said Shi Pengfei, deputy president of Chinese Wind Energy Association.