Wind to provide 3% of power
By Richard Fu |
December 3, 2011, Saturday
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WIND will provide 3 percent of China's electricity by 2015, doubling from the current level, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission said yesterday.
Power generated from wind turbines may reach 190 billion kilowatt-hours in 2015 in China, or 3 percent of the nation's total electricity, Shi Yubo, vice chairman of the SERC, said yesterday in Beijing. Wind output was 58.3 billion kWh in the first 10 months of this year, or 1.5 percent of total.
China's wind market has doubled its accumulated installed capacity annually between 2005 and 2009. Last year, the country added another 18.9 gigawatts, bringing the total to 44.7GW and surpassed the United States as the nation with the biggest installed capacity.
But citing tighter approval rules for wind projects and rising debts of wind farms, analysts said annual installation may have peaked in 2010.
Industry officials have said the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, is consolidating project approval from local governments to cool the heady growth and also allow more time to work out problems connecting newly-installed turbines to power grids.
An SERC report released yesterday said China's grid-connected wind capacity totaled 39.24GW as of August. Shi of the SERC forecast the capacity to reach 100GW by 2015.
To reach that goal is not easy, Shi Lishan, vice director of the renewable energy department of the National Energy Administration under the NDRC, said on Thursday in Shanghai.
"In the past, the problem was that we didn't have the equipment. Now the problems are grid connections and (stable) operations, as well as market constraints," the NDRC's Shi said.
The SERC report also said China's exploitable land-based wind resources are 2,380GW, and offshore resources at 200GW, citing a survey by the China Meteorological Administration. These estimates differ from previous industry projections, which put exploitable wind potential offshore at 750GW.
Power generated from wind turbines may reach 190 billion kilowatt-hours in 2015 in China, or 3 percent of the nation's total electricity, Shi Yubo, vice chairman of the SERC, said yesterday in Beijing. Wind output was 58.3 billion kWh in the first 10 months of this year, or 1.5 percent of total.
China's wind market has doubled its accumulated installed capacity annually between 2005 and 2009. Last year, the country added another 18.9 gigawatts, bringing the total to 44.7GW and surpassed the United States as the nation with the biggest installed capacity.
But citing tighter approval rules for wind projects and rising debts of wind farms, analysts said annual installation may have peaked in 2010.
Industry officials have said the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, is consolidating project approval from local governments to cool the heady growth and also allow more time to work out problems connecting newly-installed turbines to power grids.
An SERC report released yesterday said China's grid-connected wind capacity totaled 39.24GW as of August. Shi of the SERC forecast the capacity to reach 100GW by 2015.
To reach that goal is not easy, Shi Lishan, vice director of the renewable energy department of the National Energy Administration under the NDRC, said on Thursday in Shanghai.
"In the past, the problem was that we didn't have the equipment. Now the problems are grid connections and (stable) operations, as well as market constraints," the NDRC's Shi said.
The SERC report also said China's exploitable land-based wind resources are 2,380GW, and offshore resources at 200GW, citing a survey by the China Meteorological Administration. These estimates differ from previous industry projections, which put exploitable wind potential offshore at 750GW.
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