Tuesday, October 21, 2008

China installs 7.3GW wind power in 2008

It is estimated that the newly installed wind power project in China in 2008 will be 7.304GW, and the accumulated installed wind power capacity will reach 13.356GW by the end of 2008 in China.

And the top five wind power generation provinces are Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Hebei.

China Power Investment Xianjuding Wind Power Project Held Ground Breaking Ceremony

2008 October 18th, Hubei Dawu Xianjuding Wind Power Project started the construction. The planned capacity is 100MW, and the investment is 1 billion CNY.

The first phase project capacity is 30MW, and 40 sets of 750KW wind turbines from Gold Wind will be installed. The first phase project will be completed in December 2009.

This is the second wind power plant after Jiugongshan wind power plant in Hubei province.

Gansu province will have 1GW wind power capacity by the end of 2008

Gansu province is rich in wind energy, the wind energy reserve in Gansu province is 237 GW with 150GW in Jiuquan city.

The total installed wind power capacity in Gansu province will reach 1GW by the end of 2008.

The first wind power project in Hainan province will be completed by the end 2008

Huaneng Wenchang Wind Power project is on the track, 11 sets of wind turbines have been installed, and the first phase project will be completed by the end of 2008. The total capacity for the first phase Huaneng Wenchang Wind Power project is 49.5MW, and in total 33 sets of 1.5MW wind turbines will be installed, and the wind turbines are manufactured by Sinovel. The first phase project will be able to generate about 103 million KWH power per year.

Huaneng Wenchang Wind Power project is the first wind power project in Hainan province, and the total planned capacity is 120MW, and the total investment is 1.3 billion CNY.

Vestas Receives Order for 116 V52-850kW Turbines in China

Monday, Oct 20, 2008

Vestas has received an order for delivery of 116 V52-850kW wind turbines for Suniteyou Wind Farm III and IV, Xilinguole City, Inner Mongolia Province, China. The order was received from China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power.

The contracts include supply and commissioning of the turbines including towers, the VestasOnline Business supervisory control and data acquisition solution and a two-year service and maintenance agreement.

Delivery and commissioning of the turbines is planned for the third quarter of 2009.

Lars Andersen, managing director of Vestas China, said: We are very pleased about this order; the fact that China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power has once again selected Vestas turbines is proof of both the quality of our product and the overall business case of our wind energy solutions.