China's future wind power market is worrying

According to the data released by the Global Wind Energy Council on the 8th, the installed wind power capacity of the global wind power industry in 2011 reached 41,000 MW (MW), an increase of 6%. Among them, the total installed capacity of China's wind turbines ranks first with a cumulative total of 62,000 MW. This is the second consecutive year that China's installed capacity of wind turbines is “king”.

On the 8th, Zhao Jinzhuo, a member of the China Renewable Energy Society and director of the Industry Research Department of China Wind Energy magazine, told reporters that in a certain sense, the large installed capacity of wind power shows that the development of wind power industry in China is fast, but China has not. We have a good response to a series of issues such as uneven resource distribution, wind power integration, and renewable energy market transactions. “This geometric growth is worrying.”

Foreign wind power subsidies "generous"

“For the wind power industry in Canada, 2011 is a meaningful year. All over Canada, especially Ontario, has become a hot spot for wind power investment in the world. This year, almost all provinces have new wind power projects launched.” On the 6th, In an interview with a reporter, Canadian wind expert Patrick analyzed that Canadian wind power started 10 years ago. At that time, wind power installed capacity in China was only 198,000 kilowatts, which could only meet the electricity demand of 582 households. However, in recent years, wind power has developed rapidly. In addition to policy support, the country’s huge wind potential has also laid the foundation for the development of the industry. Statistics show that Canada’s potential wind resources are about 485 billion kilowatts, and only wind resources in northern Quebec can meet 40% of Canada’s electricity demand.

How does the United Kingdom want to reduce its carbon emissions by 80% by 2050? On the 8th, Antos, president of the UK-based Boreas Wind Power Group, interviewed the reporter and emphasized that wind power is a measure and a means of both environmental protection and commercial value. The United Kingdom has a coastline of 11,450 kilometers and the average annual wind speed can reach 8 meters per second. For China, the advantages and development speed of this type of offshore wind power can be astonishing.

Regarding wind power being favored by various countries, Zhao Jinzhuo stated that due to the relatively mature wind power industry chain and network, wind power construction in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has progressed in an orderly manner, and the government’s subsidies for wind power companies are extremely generous, and wind power can be so “hot”. ".

To speed even more quality In China's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" wind power installed capacity of 100 million kilowatts of the blueprint, the installed capacity of 23 million kilowatts of distributed wind power is impressive. Recently, the National Energy Administration has also issued the “Guidelines for the Development and Construction of Decentralized Access Wind Power Projects” to promote and standardize the development of distributed wind power projects.

Zhao Jinzhuo said, “Distributed wind power projects have not yet been fully started, but they encountered a series of grid-connected technical requirements put forward by the power grid in order to adapt to the safe and stable operation of the power grid. This technical indicator will be significantly increased for power generation projects with only 50,000 kilowatts. Its operating costs, in turn, directly affect corporate earnings expectations."

“In the past few years, geometric growth has brought China’s wind power industry to the top position in the world, but the industry’s sophisticated technology and maturity are far from reaching the world’s advanced level.” Zhao Jinzhuo believes that the quality of wind power is in line with the speed of development. Contradictions, lagging wind power standards and the rapid development of wind power contradiction, wind power and power grids, wind power and conventional power supply inconsistent contradiction is increasingly prominent, "If only devoted to speed rather than quality, wind power industry will embark on a similar detour to photovoltaic power generation. ”

Antos has been paying attention to China's wind power industry. He said that the above series of uncertainties will bring about an increase in costs for the project developers and investors who are currently entering the wind power sector in China, or the long return period for project investment. “New energy is a good investment point in itself, but when loopholes and legal lags cause problems, people will slowly calm down from the enthusiasm. China's wind power companies need patience and really do research and development, not Blindly pursuing numbers."