China plans to build a 43.3 GW offshore wind farm
This is enough to provide energy for the whole of Norway
The city of Chaozhou in China’s Guangdong province plans to build an offshore wind farm so large and powerful that it will be able to generate more energy than all of Norway’s power plants combined.
According to Chaozhou’s five-year development plan, the city intends to start work on a 43.3 GW offshore wind farm by 2025. For comparison, the maximum capacity of Zaporizhzhya NPP (the largest in Europe) is 6.14 GW. Thus, the Chinese wind power plant will be 7 times more powerful than the Ukrainian nuclear power plant. However, it is not specified how much the construction of such an object might cost.
The power plant is planned to be located in the Taiwan Strait at a distance between 75 and 185 km from the coast of the city.
‘The area has unique topographical features, which means the wind will be strong enough to keep the turbines running 3,800 to 4,300 hours a year, or 43% to 49% of the time, which is an extremely high utilization rate,’ Bloomberg writes.
It should be noted that China is actively developing wind energy. In 2021, China commissioned more offshore wind capacity — 17 GW — than the rest of the world combined in the previous 5 years. At the time, it was reported that China’s offshore wind power capacity (26 GW) is almost half of the global capacity (54 GW).
Wow – China just built more offshore wind capacity, in 2021 alone, than the rest of the world had managed in the last 5yrs put together
Its 26GW now accounts for half of the world's 54GW total
Also, it added twice as much in 2021 as IEA had forecast in…December 2021 pic.twitter.com/yFpctkI1Zd
— Simon Evans (@DrSimEvans) January 25, 2022
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