Inner Mongolia No 1 for wind-power installed capacity

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-08-01

Recent statistics show wind-power installed capacity in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region reached 18.49 million kilowatts, ranking first in China while accounting for 24.5 percent of the country’s total installed wind power.

Inner Mongolia’s wind-generation capacity amounted to 3.68 gigawatt hours in 2013, 26.29 percent of the country’s total. The amount also accounted for 10.17 percent of the region’s total generated power. The region’s wind-power consumption level is a world leader with 16.88 percent of regional power generated by wind.

From the beginning of the 12th Five-Year Plan, Inner Mongolia has striven to become a wind-power version of the “Three Gorges”. Its wind-power installed capacity is now 32 times greater than it was in 2007. Green wind power is the second key power source in eastern Inner Mongolia, which lacks both water and nuclear power. As such, wind power has transitioned from a form of complementary energy into a major player in the region.

Inner Mongolia has the largest wind energy reserve in China. It has planned a wind-energy base with a capacity of 10 million kilowatts or more together with six other provinces in the country.