National Energy Board of new and renewable sources of energy Shi Lishan, deputy director of Bureau of Energy, National Energy Situation in the conference, said the new round of licensing offshore wind power generators project officially entered the bidding phase, which is following the Shanghai East Sea Bridge wind project after the first offshore wind power project tender.
Although last year, excess capacity of wind turbine generators equipment, wind power’s criticism of the difficult, but wind power development is not delayed because of controversial development, the end of 2009, China’s wind power installed capacity has reached about 25 million kilowatts, jumping to the world 2, 4 consecutive years of growth doubled.
The offshore wind power in the field of wind power because of high investment and the technological difficulties and other reasons to become the most controversial areas of the formal tender, which means wind power development in China will open a brand new one, also shows that decision-making will not change due to various disputes and even the development of wind energy established a new route.
National Energy Board of new and renewable sources of energy Shi Lishan, deputy director, said the project tenders in the coastal Jiangsu Province, including two 300,000 kilowatts of wind power offshore, 2 20-MW wind tidal flats, a total of 1 million kilowatts At the same time for bidding, the current project selection and preparation of tender documents has been completed, originally scheduled for the end of April for the issuing of work, postponed to be held in early May.
And Shanghai projects, “Experiment significance” compared to this tender also showed very cautious decision-making, testing significance is still strong.
Shi Lishan frankly, the current development of offshore wind power is very difficult, I hope this tender will be the establishment of offshore wind power industry system carrier.
“China’s development of offshore wind power an important field of wind generators , but also Europe and the United States an important part of the development of wind power, offshore wind power investment is 2.5 times the land, the high reliability of the equipment, design of high, difficult construction, repair costly to resolve, such as salt spray corrosion, typhoons and other issues, it should proceed step by step, “said Shi Lishan.
This year in June, China’s only offshore wind power demonstration project in Shanghai East Sea Bridge project 34 units will be fully grid, Shi Lishan, said the project’s successful operation, the development of offshore wind power in China has accumulated significant experience, but also strengthened national commitment to offshore wind development and confidence.
Offshore small wind turbines : the focus of global competition
Wind power are present safety, environmental protection, the most development potential of new energy industries mature technology. In terms of relative nuclear power, wind power is more secure; compared to solar energy, the lower the cost of wind power development; relative to biomass, the wind power technology is more mature; relative to the ocean (including tidal), the wind power industry of more. Therefore, the industry expects a new energy future global competition mainly in the wind power industry.
The offshore wind power as a land-based wind power by the incomparable advantages, has become a global wind power development, these advantages include not taking up valuable land resources, from terrain effects, wind is more stable, more wind turbine unit capacity , and so on greater use of hours.
Many countries, offshore wind technology is quite mature into large-scale development phase. European Wind Energy Association’s latest statistics show that in 2009, the European offshore windmill generators industry turnover is about 15 billion euros, is expected to increase by one-fold in 2010, to 30 billion euros.
In China, the eastern coastal development of wind energy resources in the sea can be about 750 million kilowatts, not only has great potential and resources development and utilization of favorable market conditions, as opposed to land-based wind farm closer to the economic center of China, the development of offshore wind power more practical significance. It also makes a number of offshore wind generators giant, to vote on the eyes to focus.
Back in Shanghai East Sea Bridge project when bidding, there Datang, China Guangdong Nuclear, China Power Investment, Shanghai green energy, Three Gorges, CNOOC, the applicant can, Huadian Group and other energy giants to bid. Although the final withering Datang Commonwealth, but lost the energy giant has not given up offshore wind power.
CNOOC in a particular listed company mid-year report conference, General Manager Fu Chengyu, CNOOC (Fu news, Fu speak) said that CNOOC Group, in addition to planned investment in the East China Sea, offshore wind electricity generation, also in Bohai Bay, offshore wind research power generation, hoping to become CNOOC offshore wind energy is another important business. Since then, the city of Weihai in Shandong CNOOC signed a total investment of 21.0 billion in offshore wind power turbines development agreement, and put up in Weihai, a wind tower 140 meters.
CNOOC is not the only conduct its own wind energy central enterprises. In fact, contact with local governments signed an agreement, many of energy enterprises have basically delineate the central waters of their own sphere of influence. This also led to enclosures for offshore wind power controversy.
The offshore wind power project tender the end of the enterprises and local governments can act in their own disorder, remains to be seen. However, the tender has apparently resort to the law previously announced “development and construction of offshore wind Interim Measures” requirements, conducting offshore wind power development for the wind conditions before the conditions, set conditions, site conditions, environmental conditions the number of surveys, will be in charge of offshore wind power development department to develop a detailed program requirements, and often before the Energy Bureau also asked to report offshore wind power throughout the planning, requirements according to planning for development.
Moreover, unlike in the past development of different land, the sea tender, “conditions more stringent, companies must first meet certain technical standards can bid,” said Shi Lishan.
Pending the development of wind power struggle
It can be seen offshore turbine generators development “planning” and “procedures” before the land development requirements are more stringent than that. For the first two years of wind power development in the disorder problem has attracted a large number of disputes and accusations, critics say, the development of wind power too quickly, which leads to the problem is that power can not keep up, so most of wind power equipment idle; At the same time, wind power equipment to the rapid development of disorder, there have been many low-level redundant construction, which has a structural surplus production capacity.
Earlier this year, Deputy Minister of Industry and Miao Wei (Miao Wei News) is expressed in public, most of China’s wind power project for the image project. According to “Beijing Times” reports, Miao Wei on March 7th to participate in two sessions in the Hubei delegation said the panel discussion, “launched amid the many wind power plants are mostly image projects”, “especially in Gansu that 10 million kilowatts of wind power class is a typical image of the project. ”
Although the grid are nothing new, most of the industry are also recognition of some wind power projects and network problems, but Miao Wei’s remarks has provoked a debate on wind power development.
For the grid problem, history of Tateyama in the April 23 conference on the Energy Bureau, said, “With the expansion of the scale of wind power, wind power development in China’s outstanding performance issues difficult for the grid.” But he also pointed out that “this is the local place and local sessions and network hard problem, mainly in the winter time the night time. ”
Previously, deputy director of NDRC, the National Energy Secretary Zhang also answered these questions, he said, and network issues in national concession projects in the performance is not outstanding, because the planning of these projects on convergence of grid were carried out power facilities, wind power output does not exist a problem. Most of the difficult problem of grid in some parts of approving projects stand out.
Therefore, before the development of offshore wind power, the relevant administrative procedures and planning to become an important prerequisite. To implement and network problems, “We want a good program, first implement the market, strengthen the forecast wind resources, rational distribution of the power structure”, said Shi Lishan.
Shi Pengfei, vice chairman of Wind Energy Association, told reporters earlier on the Articles, and our country like the U.S. wind power growth is very fast, and they exist as network transmission problems. So this is a global problem, not the only problem in China.
Battle grid in the past focused on the slow construction of power grids, while the current focus on wind power development is too fast, the quality of wind power can not meet the power requirements. The core of these disputes is the development of wind power should first come before the development of power, whether by supporting wind power grid, or by power grid construction of wind power projects? In this regard, is not yet a definite answer, everything is still in the game. A new development is the current power grid has proposed a wind power network of technical standards, will not meet the quality of the wind out of the grid outside.
Shi Lishan also pointed out that “The issue that a lot of network standards, there are wind power experts believe that this issue is not so serious, and power will be the issue too seriously, is an excuse. But now we have a broad understanding.”
In his view, can be difficult to solve the grid to take the following measures: First, expand the scope of the allocation of resources to build a larger network. At present there are 900 million of electricity installed capacity, only 2 million are wind power, wind power at the macro accepted no problem. Second, increase the proportion of flexible power to match it with the wind.
In addition, he also said that some regions are trying to pumped storage, the wind can be reasonably unstable region, “abandoning the wind”, can improve the economics of wind power; In addition, you can strengthen the demand side management, such as the northern winter can the use of electric heating and improve efficiency.
“Grid technology itself is no problem, even if the fire power to match the wind power can be, but economic problems. The essence of the problem is the economic problem, is to consider that we need what the cost to develop this industry?” History Li Shan said.
Explore the middle row
“Wind power development ideas and goals are very clear,” said Shi Lishan. He believes that the current environment facing the development of wind power than a few years ago, new changes have taken place. In the past, facing the development of wind power equipment manufacturing capacity is mainly constrained, constrained the development of wind power today has become a market discipline. Constraints to solve the problems the market still need a process to adjust the core interests of all parties.
This is frequently for reasons related to law. “Renewable Energy Law” is the policy of the Chinese wind power development promoter, but after 4 years that was revised. The new version of “renewable energy law” has been started on April 1 implementation of the amendments made four major changes: First, we must strengthen the planning, play a fundamental role to planning; Second, the development of renewable energy power generation target the implementation of the quota system, involving not only the power plants, power grids and local governments will also be included; The third is to develop renewable energy priority scheduling grid method; Fourth, the management of renewable energy fund. But most of them still need details of the implementation of statements of principle. At present the relevant details are worked out.
Shi Lishan frankly, the formulation of the quota system is very difficult to target well to mention difficult to implement, lack of supervision and inspection methods, it is difficult to say when to put.
The National Energy Board Policy and Regulation Department has Yachuan April 23 said, “Energy Law” This year has experienced major changes and modifications, and strive to report the State Council executive meeting at the end of the year consideration.
Earlier media reports that the “Energy Law” amendment to the development of new energy, “giving priority to developing renewable energy,” the statement changed to “encourage development”, although both shows support for renewable energy, but little meaning different, coal and other fossil energy sources and utilization of clean and efficient use will be emphasized. These subtle changes could have affected the industry’s investments.
However, on April 22, China’s energy committee in the establishment of more than two months since the first plenary session, Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to focus attention on the following, the second is “to speed up the adjusting and optimizing energy structure, vigorously develop new energy sources industries. ”
State Department counselor, director of the National Energy Advisory Committee of experts, said Xu Dingming, for the development of new energy, the central authorities is very clear, Wen Jiabao on April 11 on “new energy” to do a definition: “to highlight the development of new energy and clean energy renewable energy, including hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, solar power, biogas, geothermal power generation and clean use of coal. ”
Can be said that, despite the many controversies, the development of new energy including wind power is still the trend, and no return can go.

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