The National Energy Bureau (NEB) will launch preparation work for the second public bidding on offshore wind power concession wind farm projects in the second half year of 2011 and is scheduled to complete the bidding in the first half year of 2012. The total construction scale will be between 1.5 gigawatts and 2 gigawatts, according to news from a symposium on offshore wind power held in Nantong City of east China’s Jiangsu Province on June 22.
Offshore wind energy is the frontier of the development of global wind power. China’s enterprises must reach the international advanced level in offshore wind power, said Liu Qi, deputy director of the NEB.
In June 2010, the first stage project of East Sea Bridge Offshore Wind Farm went into operation in Shanghai. Totaling 102 megawatts, it is China’s first large-scale offshore wind farm and is located on the east side of the Shanghai East Sea Bridge. It comprises 34 units of 3-megawatt Sinovel wind turbines.
In addition, China Longyuan Electic Power Group Corp. built the world’s first experimental offshore wind farm in 2010 and the follow-up project started on June 21, 2011.
