The China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) has started full operations on a 3 GW onshore wind power project located in a desertic area of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (northern China). The Hinggan project, which is currently China’s largest onshore wind power project, comprises 701 wind turbines and will be able to generate about 10 TWh/year of electricity. The project’s generating capacity is equivalent to cutting coal consumption by about 3 Mt/year and avoiding the emission of around 8 MtCO2/year. The project, which started construction in 2020, is part of a batch of renewable energy projects to be developed in China’s desert regions.
In 2022, China’s installed capacity for renewables surpassed 1,100 GW (with 413 GW for hydro, 365 GW for wind and 393 GW for solar). The country plans to reach 1,200 MW of wind and solar capacity by 2030 and intends to develop 450 GW of solar and wind capacity on the Gobi Desert and other desert regions.
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