China’s offshore wind industry is entering an era of large-scale development, as the country’s wind power development is the most rapid in the world.
“Wind power has become the third-largest electric power in China,” said Liu Qi, deputy director general of the National Energy Administration. “There is no electric power to substitute the position of wind power as No. 3, following thermal power and hydropower.”
It was said in the report of the 18th CPC National Congress: “China is determined to promote the revolution of energy generation and consumption, to control the total consumption of energy, to improve energy conservation, and to support the development of energy conservation and the low carbon industry as well as renewable energy in order to ensure the safety of national energy.”
The State Council recently released its white paper, “China’s Energy Policy”, which clearly indicates: “Wind power is the non-hydro renewable energy with the biggest possibility of large-scale development and market utilization at the moment. Wind power shall be developed efficiently. China’s wind power development is the most rapid in the world. During China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, wind power shall be developed in both concentrated and distributed formats, and the development layout shall be optimized. Wind farm construction will be promoted in areas abundant in wind resources, including the Northwest, North China and the Northeast, and the utilization of distributed wind resources will be accelerated. Offshore wind power shall be developed steadily. Standards and industry monitoring for wind power equipment shall be improved. Wind power enterprises will be encouraged to strengthen research of key technologies to speed up the upgrading of the wind power industry. The consumption capacity of power systems shall be increased by strengthening grid construction, improving grid dispatching, enhancing equipment performance, advancing wind power predictions and forecasts, and so on. By 2015, China’s total wind turbine installed capacity will hit 100 million kW, including 5 million kW offshore.”
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