(Economic Watch) China Increases Green Investment in Wind Power Industry Rapid Development

　　China News Agency, Zhanjiang, April 30 (Sun Qiuxia) In Zhanjiang, the southernmost point of mainland China, large white windmills rose up in Xuwen, Lianjiang, Leizhou and other places, becoming a beautiful white landscape.

Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Zhanjiang is a natural wind farm, attracting wind power companies to settle down one after another.

　　"We are one of the first electric power companies to settle in Zhanjiang, and we have witnessed the step-by-step development of Zhanjiang's wind power industry." Huang Yuenan, a technician from Guangdong Yudean Zhanjiang Wind Power Co., Ltd., said in an interview recently.

　　In 2006, Guangdong Yudean Zhanjiang Wind Power Co., Ltd. was formally established, becoming the first new energy company to put into operation in western Guangdong.

Three years later, the Yangqian wind farm with a total installed capacity of 49,500 kilowatts was integrated into the grid to generate electricity, becoming the first onshore wind power project in western Guangdong and officially opening a new chapter for onshore wind power in Zhanjiang.

　　In the past 16 years, China Huadian Group, China State Power Investment Group, Guangdong Yueneng Group and other power companies have successively entered Zhanjiang.

The data shows that in 2021, Zhanjiang City will have a total installed wind power capacity of 2.6148 million kilowatts, and the installed onshore wind power capacity will account for 27.48% of the province's total installed capacity of onshore wind power.

　　Compared with onshore wind power, offshore wind power has the characteristics of high stability and high wind speed.

With the gradual saturation of onshore wind energy resources, offshore wind power has become a "new battlefield" for many wind power companies to compete for.

　　In the waters of Wailuo, Xuwen, Zhanjiang, wind turbines with a height of about 100 meters stand majestically on the vast sea.

Four years ago, Zhanjiang's first offshore windmill was settled here, opening a new territory for Zhanjiang's offshore wind power.

　　On November 26, 2021, all 94 wind turbines of the Xuwen Offshore Wind Power Project of China State Power Investment Group were connected to the grid to generate electricity, making it the largest offshore wind power project in operation in Asia.

After the project is put into production at full capacity, it is expected to provide 1.7 billion kWh of clean electricity every year.

　　Zhanjiang is a microcosm of the development of China's wind power industry.

In recent years, driven by the global green wave and the "dual carbon" goal, China has increased green investment, and the wind power industry has ushered in rapid development.

According to data released by China's National Energy Administration on April 29, as of the end of March 2022, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in the country was 337 million kilowatts, of which the cumulative installed capacity of onshore wind power was 310 million kilowatts and the cumulative installed capacity of offshore wind power was 26.65 million kilowatts.

　　At the beginning of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Modern Energy System", which clearly proposed to accelerate the development of wind power, comprehensively promote the large-scale development and high-quality development of wind power, encourage the construction of offshore wind power bases, and promote the development of offshore wind power to deep water. Layout of the far shore area.

　　Recently, many places in China have successively released news on the construction of tens of millions of kilowatts of offshore wind power bases.

For example, the Guangdong Provincial Energy Administration started the preliminary work on the 10 million kilowatt offshore wind power base in eastern and western Guangdong; Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province proposed a development plan for a 50 million kilowatt offshore wind power base; Shandong Province will build a 10 million kilowatt offshore wind power base and thousands of 100 million-level Shandong Peninsula offshore wind power equipment manufacturing industrial base.

　　Rao Hong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the China Southern Power Grid Research Institute, pointed out that offshore wind power is one of the best new energy resources and is of great significance to the low-carbon transformation of power.

Moreover, offshore wind power is mainly concentrated in the eastern coastal load center, which will become an important way to ease the pressure on power supply and demand in the eastern region.

　　Zou Ji, CEO of the Energy Foundation and President of China, revealed that in the past few years, China's average annual investment in the field of wind and solar energy is about RMB 5.6 trillion or more. Investments in the field have the potential to maintain and expand.

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