The “installed wind farm capacity”in this report refers to the wind farms which hoisting engineering completed, different to the capacity of grid -connected and during commissioning, as well as the capacity in commercial operation.
Concerning data error: Although these statistics have been verified by the local DRCs and developers, due to different time periods and statistical specifications, this data is not identical to that of wind farm developers and related governmental departments.
In 2011, 11,409 new wind turbines were installed which equaled to 17.6 GW and made the total installed capacity to 62.4 GW, the annual growth rate is 39.4%.
In 2011, North China continued its leading position in wind power growth and its total wind power installed capacity achieved 20 GW, of which Inner Mongolia installed 17.6 GW, the biggest wind powered province in China. Hebei installed 2.18 GW in 2011 that make its total wind power installed capacity close to 7 GW and become the second biggest wind powered province. In addition, Shanxi also showed fast growth in the past year and had 933.6 MW newly installation.
Due to the grid integration barrier, wind power growth in the all northeren china areas had slowed down compared to the previous years. Meanwhile, other areas in China installed more wind power last year and the average growth rate in these areas surpassed 50%, especially in Southwest china like Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, the annual growth rate achieved 129%.
East China also had big growth, in Shandong Province, 1.9 GW were added in 2011 and the total capacity up to 4.6 GW, which made Shandong overtake Jilin to become the 3rd largest province with wind power installation. The Central South China area with low wind speed also made a success in transferring from one or two pilot wind farm projects to commercial large-scale development.
2011 provincial newly and total installed wind power capacity (MW)
No. Province-2010-Total 2011 -New 2011 Total
1 Inner Mongolia 13858.0 3736.4 17594.4
2 Hebei 4794.0 2175.5 6969.5
3 Gansu 4944.0 465.2 5409.2
4 Liaoning 4066.9 1182.5 5249.3
5 Shandong 2637.8 1924.5 4562.3
6 Jilin 2940.9 622.5 3563.4
7 Heilong 2370.1 1075.8 3445.8
8 Ningxia 1182.7 1703.5 2886.2
9 Xinjiang 1363.6 952.5 2316.1
10 Jiangsu 1595.3 372.3 1967.6
11 Shanxi 947.5 933.6 1881.1
12 Guangdong 888.8 413.6 1302.4
13 Fujian 833.7 192.0 1025.7
14 Yunnan 430.5 501.8 932.3
15 Shaan Xi 177.0 320.5 497.5
16 Zhejiang 298.2 69.0 367.2
17 Shanghai 269.4 48.6 318.0
18 Henan 121.0 179.0 300.0
19 Anhui 148.5 148.5 297.0
20 Hainan 256.7 – 256.7
21 Tianjin 102.5 141.0 243.5
22 Guizhou 42.0 153.1 195.1
23 Hunan 97.3 88.0 185.3
24 Beijing 152.5 2.5 155.0
25 Jiangxi 84.0 49.5 133.5
26 Hubei 69.8 30.7 100.4
27 Guangxi 2.5 76.5 79.0
28 Qinghai 11.0 56.5 67.5
29 Chongqing 46.8 – 46.8
30 Sichuan 0.0 16.0 16.0
31 Hong Kong 0.8 – 0.8
Sum 44733.3 17630.9 62364.2
32 Taiwan 519 45 564
Total 45252.3 17675.9 62928.2
Source: CWEA
Size of Wind Turbines
The average rated power of the new wind turbines installed in 2011 was 1545.5 kW, 5.4% growth compared to 2010’s 1455.8 kW and the annual growth rate was 11% in the past 5 years. As late of the end of 2011, the accumulative installed average rated power became 1358.9 kW.
Among the newly installed wind turbines, 1.5 MW was most installed type and 74% of the newly installed wind turbines. 2 MW wind turbines’ market share increased from 11.4% in 2010 to 14.7% in 2011. 2.5 MW and above multi-MWs wind turbines’ market share achieve 3.5%, of which 24 units were 2.5 MW wind turbines, 123 units 3 MW wind turbines, one prototype of 3.6 MW, 5 MW and 6 MW was installed respectively.
Manufacturers
Goldwind installed 3600 MW in 2011 and ranked No.1 with the market share of 20.4%, 0.7% increase compared to that of last year. Those ranked No.2 to No.5 were Sinovel, United Power, Mingyang and Dongfang. The new installations were 2939 MW, 2847 MW, 1177.5 MW and 946 MW respectively. The top 5 had taken 70% of the whole market, 5% growth; however, top 10 market share had decreased from 87.3% to 83.2% in 2011. There are 15 manufacturers who installed more than 300 MW annually, while there was only Goldwind with more than 300 MW five years ago.
Top 20 manufacturers by new installation in 2011 (MW)
No. Manufacturers- Capacity -Share
1 Goldwind 3600.0 20.4%
2 Sinovel 2939.0 16.7%
3 United Power 2847.0 16.1%
4 Mingyang 1177.5 6.7%
5 Dongfang 946.0 5.4%
6 XEMC-Wind 712.5 4.0%
7 SEWIND 708.1 4.0%
8 Vestas 661.9 3.8%
9 CCWE 625.5 3.5%
10 CSR 451.2 2.6%
11 GE 408.5 2.3%
12 CSIC-Haizhuang 396.0 2.2%
13 Windey 375.0 2.1%
14 Gamesa 361.6 2.1%
15 Envision 348.0 2.0%
16 Yinxing 221.0 1.3%
17 SANY 179.5 1.0%
18 Xuji 166.0 0.9%
19 HEAG 151.0 0.9%
20 Suzlon 96.2 0.5%
Other 259.4 1.5%
Total 17630.9 100.0%
Source: Chinese Wind Energy Association (CWEA)
With the fast growth of China wind power installation, there are four Chinese wind turbine manufacturers entered global top 10 in 2011 in terms of newly installed capacity, namely Goldwind, Sinovel, United Power and Mingyang. And Dongfang, XEMC and SEWIND are also among the top 15 in 2011. In the meantime, Chinese manufacturers were also expanding international business. In 2011, China has exported 220 MW wind turbines, almost 15 times bigger than that of 2010, and the leading enterprise Goldwind exported 124 wind turbines to the USA, Ecuador and Ethiopia which equaled to 189 MW.
Top 20 manufacturers by total installation in 2011 (MW)
No. Manufacturers Capacity Share
1 Sinovel 12977.0 20.8%
2 Goldwind 12678.9 20.3%
3 Dongfang 6898.0 11.1%
4 United Power 5282.0 8.5%
5 Vestas 3565.5 5.7%
6 Mingyang 3123.0 5.0%
7 Gamesa 2785.9 4.5%
8 XEMC-Wind 1801.5 2.9%
9 SEWIND 1781.5 2.9%
10 GE 1575.5 2.5%
11 CCWE 1308.0 2.1%
12 Windey 1098.0 1.8%
13 CSR 916.5 1.5%
14 Suzlon 901.3 1.4%
15 CSIC Haizhuang 875.3 1.4%
16 Envision 748.5 1.2%
17 Nordex 574.2 0.9%
18 Yinxing 473.0 0.8%
19 HEAG 446.1 0.7%
20 China Energine 355.2 0.6%
Other 2199.5 3.5%
Total 62364.2 100.0%
Source: Chinese Wind Energy Association (CWEA)
China wind farm developers by new installation in 2011 (MW)
1 Guodian Group 3860.5 21.9%
2 Datang Group 2235.1 12.7%
3 Huaneng Group 2229.0 12.6%
4 Huadian Group 1104.0 6.3%
5 Guohua Group 1094.5 6.2%
6 China Power Investment Group 866.3 4.9%
7 China Resource Power 796.1 4.5%
8 CGN Wind 527.0 3.0%
9 Jingneng 372.0 2.1%
10 Suntien Green Power 343.6 1.9%
Other 4202.9 23.9%
Total 17630.9 100.0%
Top 10 China wind farm developers by total installation in 2011 (MW)
No. Developers Capacity Share
1 Guodian Group 12861.3 20.6%
2 Huaneng Group 8578.0 13.8%
3 Datang Group 8007.1 12.8%
4 Huadian Group 3829.9 6.1%
5 Guohua Group 3440.1 5.5%
6 China Power Investment Group 2944.9 4.7%
7 CGN Wind 2891.5 4.6%
8 China Resource Power 1773.4 2.8%
9 Jingneng 1686.3 2.7%
10 Suntien Green Power 1278.6 2.1%
Other 15073.4 24.2%
Total 62364.2 100.0%
Wind energy in China
1997: 146 MW
1998: 200 MW (+37 %)
1999: 262 MW (+31 %)
2000: 352 MW (+34.4 %)
2001: 400 MW (+13.7 %)
2002: 468 MW (+17 %)
2003: 567 MW (+21.2 %)
2004: 764 MW (+34.8 %)
2005: 1,266 MW (+65.8 %)
2006: 2,599 MW (+105.3 %)
2007: 5,912 MW (+127.5 %)
2008: 12,210 MW (+106.6 %)
2009: 25,104 MW (+105.7 %)
2010: 41,800 MW (+66.6 %)
2011: 62,733 MW (+50.1 %)
Source: Chinese Wind Energy Association (CWEA), www.wwindea.org
