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Current situation and development of wind power in China

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The current development of wind power in China was presented in this paper. Many regions such as Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and southeast coastal region, etc. in China have abundant wind energy resource. At the same time, the utilization of wind power in China has been developing quickly and its prospect is promising in spite of many some obstacles. With the implementation of the Renewable Energy Law, some previous obstacles have been or are being eliminated. Much investment and many enterprises start to enter this field. In spite of this, there still exist some financial and technological obstacles. One of the technological obstacles is the stability of local power grid owing to the increasing proportion of the wind power capacity. Because the centralized development mode of wind power was adopted, the quick fluctuation of wind speed will influence the voltage and frequency stability of local power grid. In addition, large wind farm has little dispatching ability because of the uncontrollability, randomness and fluctuation of natural incoming wind. To erase these obstacles, a novel hybrid power system combining wind farm and small gas turbine power plants is discussed.

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  1. Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Bao Nengsheng & Ni Weidou

  2. Institute of Energy & Environment Science, Shantou University, Shantou, 515063, China

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Bao, N., Ni, W. Current situation and development of wind power in China. Front. Energy Power Eng. China 1, 371–383 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-007-0056-4

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