China’s 9-mo wind power output jumps 7.6% to 106 TWh

Oct 31, 2014 - China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) said Thursday the country’s wind power output for the first nine months of 2014 has increased by 7.6% on the year to 106 TWh.

The wind power curtailment issue in the country is also gradually improving, according to NEA’s calculations. The “spilled wind” rate during the period decreased by 3.36 percentage points to 7.5% of total generation.

Meanwhile, the country’s total power consumption in January-to-September grew by 3.9% on the year to 4,097 TWh.

Over the reporting period, wind capacity rose by 22% or 8.58 GW, so China had 84.97 GW of operational wind farms at end-September.

In terms of newly installed wind farms during the reporting period, Xinjiang autonomous region takes the first place with 1.92 GW of capacity additions, followed by Shandong province with 820 MW. Next in line come Shanxi, Ningxia and Yunnan with 750 MW, 670 MW and 520 of fresh wind parks, respectively.

China expects its installed wind capacity to hit 100 GW by the end of this year, and then to double to 200 GW by end-2020. According to the Global Wind Energy Outlook, the Asian country could reach a total 2030 wind farm capacity of at least 310.2 GW or as much as 497.5 GW under two separate scenarios.

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