China's largest offshore wind energy farm now online

[jpak]

http://www.evwind.es/noticias.php?id_not=15669

Longyuan Power, China' s largest wind power developer, connected 99.3 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines to the grid in a pilot intertidal wind farm in Rudong county in eastern province of Jiangsu.

China's offshore wind energy. China has made substantial progress in boosting its burgeoning offshore wind power by launching its largest intertidal wind farm at the end of 2011.

On December 28, Longyuan Power, China' s largest wind power developer, connected 99.3 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines to the grid in a pilot intertidal wind farm in Rudong county in eastern province of Jiangsu.

Taking into account the existing 32MW wind turbines, which went into operation in September 2010, Longyuan has 131.3MW wind turbines integrated to the grid in the pilot wind farm in Rudong. This has made the Rudong intertidal project China's largest offshore wind farm.

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I predict Chinese companies will soon be constructing offshore wind farms...

...off the US coast.

[Yo_Mama]

1. Oh, and they connected it to the grid!

It's innovative steps like connecting your offshore wind farm to the grid that determine the winners and losers in this world.

[Nihil]

2. Maybe they should offer their skills to the Germans ...?

... as their own folks seem incapable of doing the job properly ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11273190

[Yo_Mama]

3. yeah, that's what I was thinking

The sad fact about the German issues are that the failure to get the transmission lines up and running messes up the whole development plan - so not only are they screwing the first-ups, but the more people back off construction plans, the more it will cost to set up the lines, so it is a downward spiral.

Maybe this year the Germans will haul it out. They are having a much milder winter, but you can't depend on cooperative weather over the longer run, and they need to do whatever they need to do to get the North Seas wind farm projects moving. Otherwise, they are left with conventional thermal, which is not what they were seeking.