The nation's offshore wind power will equal all existing onshore wind farms by 2020
Posted 04.05.2010 at 1:17 pm
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China Offshore Wind Power
Let's kick the turbines and, um, collect some wind power
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China is already the world's largest market for wind power, but it's not stopping with the onshore sites. A 102-megawatt wind farm is slated to hit full power this month in the Yangtze River delta near Shanghai, Technology Review reports. And that's just the beginning, as Chinese officials opened bids on creating three or four more offshore wind power projects that could generate 1,000 megawatts total.
Energy experts predict that China will have invested $100 billion to install 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind power by 2020. Such projects would help supply energy to 40 percent of China's population that lives along the eastern seaboard.
The situation is not unlike that of the U.S. eastern seaboard, Technology Review notes. Eastern states hope to generate their own offshore wind power rather than rely upon a supergrid that can deliver wind power from the western states.
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China's wind power boom also faces engineering challenges ahead. The new wind farms on the tidal flats require special engineering to deal with the muddy seafloors and shifting sandbars. Deep water projects may also face threats from typhoons.
There's been other offshore action elsewhere in the world. Nine European nations vowed to create a supergrid for sharing offshore wind power at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. And we have the goods on General Electric's next-gen wind turbine that may capture 25 percent more wind power than conventional models.
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Great news, China definitely needs all the clean energy it can get!
Ivan Malagurski
We should have started work on renewable energy over a decade ago. We could have been way ahead of the rest of the world, instead of behind. We could have been exporting the necessary technology and expertise. We could have had all the high paying jobs and contracts before Asia figured out how to mass produce it all for cheap.
Yeah we could've but we didn't because of politics and money. The public didn't want to pay for it, and of course we depend too much on oil, and it would make those oil companies lose money. Possible today, but not possible decades ago due to people's mindset, that's my opinion anywho.
lnwolf41 Woulda shoulda coulda, And still the feds haven't given the go ahead for nantucket,why? special interest groups still control congress ie oil and enviormentalist.
The really sad part is that China is still the walmart for wind turbins