China’s grid-connected wind power capacity increases

• 7 years ago (2016-11-23)
• David Flin

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China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has released data showing that the country’s grid-connected wind power capacity has continued to increase, but the utilisation rate was starting to decline after years of capacity expansion. China’s total installed capacity of wind power connected to the power grid reached 139 GW by the end of September, up 28 per cent from a year earlier, according to the NEA.

Official data showed that the growth rate in wind power capacity outpaced that of the country’s total power use, which totalled 4.5 per cent year-on-year for the first nine months of 2016. The NEA said that the first nine months of 2016 saw the addition of 10 GW of grid-connected wind power generation capacity. However, those facilities had an average utilisation of 1251 hours over the period, down by 66 hours from the same period for 2015.