China Wind Power has delivered a satisfactory report card in its thirties.

“China’s wind power has gone through nearly 30 years, and now has a cumulative installed capacity of more than 200 million kilowatts, and has established an industrial chain supporting global development.” In addition to these achievements, what makes us more proud is that wind power does not need subsidies and can compete with thermal power in cost, which is the biggest achievement.” “We are using wind power not only because it is clean, but also because it is cheap,” said Qin Haiyan, secretary-general of the wind Energy Professional Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society.

“This year is the penultimate year of the 13th Five-Year Plan, and wind power has ushered in affordable Internet access, which will rewrite history together with photovoltaic.” On October 21, at the 2019 Beijing International Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (CWP2019), Li Junfeng, honorary chairman of the Renewable Energy Professional Committee of the China Circular Economy Association, said that wind power and photovoltaic power were more than 60% of the new installed capacity, injecting new vitality into the promotion of energy transformation.

Wind power equipment at the 2019 Beijing International Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition

Li Junfeng said that facing the “14th Five-Year Plan”, renewable energy will usher in an era of development from high speed to high proportion. Wind power, which has no benchmark electricity price, will also meet unprecedented challenges with a new attitude.

“Now that ‘subsidy-free wind power’ is inevitable, we must say goodbye to ‘subsidies’, accept them gladly and move forward bravely.” Vision Energy senior vice president Tian Qingjun said.

Wind power has achieved satisfactory results

Since the promulgation and implementation of the “Renewable Energy Law” in 2006, especially during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s wind power has entered a stage of steady and rapid development, making positive contributions to the adjustment of the national energy structure, economic transformation and upgrading, and combating environmental and climate change.

Data show that from January to September this year, the country added 13.48 million kilowatts of wind power connected to the grid, and the cumulative grid-connected installed capacity reached 198 million kilowatts. In the same period, China’s wind power generation was 289.7 billion KWH, up 9 percent year on year. From January to September, the new grid-connected capacity of offshore wind power was 1.06 million kilowatts, and the overall stable and orderly development of the industry is expected to achieve the planning goal of a cumulative grid-connected capacity of 5 million kilowatts by 2020.

“Looking back at the development of wind power, the reason why the industry can achieve such good results is mainly due to the continuous stability of policies, the steady growth of the industrial scale, the steady breakthrough of technology and business models, and the orderly solution of outstanding problems.” This year, China’s wind power still maintains a stable development trend.” Said Li Chuangjun, deputy director of the new energy and renewable energy Department of the National Energy Administration.

Li Chuangjun pointed out that the decentralized wind power development in southeast China shows great potential. The concept of local development and nearby utilization has explored a good way to save costs and increase efficiency for low-wind energy resource areas. With the implementation of the expected project, the value of decentralized development in improving common utilization efficiency and reducing social employment costs has initially emerged, and decentralized wind power has become a new growth space.

In addition, after years of efforts, especially the power grid enterprises to increase power supply and other measures to enhance the capacity of consumption, the problem of wind curtailment has also been effectively solved. Li Chuangjun said that from January to September, the country abandoned wind power 12.8 billion KWH, the average wind abandonment rate of 4.2%, a significant improvement over the same period last year, down 3.5 percentage points, Xinjiang, Gansu and western Inner Mongolia wind abandonment rate decreased significantly.

“At present, China’s wind power not only has the independent research and development capability of large megawatt wind power machine, but also has formed a complete wind power equipment manufacturing industry chain, and the overall strength and competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises have been greatly improved.” Li Chuangjun said that the strength of China’s wind power enterprises has been significantly enhanced, and the degree of internationalization has been significantly improved. In terms of mainframe exports, the number of countries in which China exported wind turbines increased from 1 in 2007 to 34 countries and regions in 2018, covering six continents around the world. Chinese wind turbine enterprises have contributed to driving the global industrial market.