China’s biggest wind farm to be built

The Huaneng Group of China will begin in June to construct the country’s biggest wind farm which has a capacity of generating three hundred megawatts. The planet’s second-largest energy user is currently engaged in finding to expand its small renewables sources of energy sector.

The project which will have a total of two hundred turbines will be put up in an area measuring one hundred square kilometres in Fuxin city which is on the north eastern side of Liaoning Province. The project is expected to begin producing power before the year ends.

From a report released by the provincial environmental authority, the wind farm is projected to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by seven hundred and fifty thousand tonnes and sulphur dioxide emissions by four thousand tonnes annually.

The wind farm is also projected to generate six hundred million kilowatts hour of electricity and this will translate to a revenue of fifty seven million dollars every year.

Huaneng Group which is undertaking the project is the biggest producer of electricity in China and is the parent company of Huaneng Power International Inc which is publicly listed in the Hong Kong stock exchange.

China is committed to promoting the utilisation of clean energy sources and reduce its heavy dependence on coal. In this connection the target for installed wind power capacity has been raised from five gigawatts by the year 2010 to ten gigawatts by the same year.

Towards the end of 2007 China had slightly over four gigawatts of wind power capacity which accounted for less than one per cent of the nation’s combined power output.

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