China Longyuan Completes Country’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

China Longyuan Power Group Corporation Limited officially announced that with completion of the 50MW Phase II construction of Longyuan Jiangsu Rudong 150MW Offshore (Intertidal Zone) Demonstration Wind Farm, this 150MW Intertidal Offshore Demonstration Wind Farm was commercially put into operation.

In Rudong County, Longyuan Power, with its 32MW (intertidal zone) pilot wind farm locally situated that became operational at end of September, 2010, has built up the largest offshore wind farm in China, having a gross installation capacity of 182MW. In China Longyuan continued its leading position in offshore wind power industry.

After the completion of Longyuan Jiangsu Rudong 150MW Offshore (Intertidal Zone) Demonstration Wind Farm, it can feed about 375 million kWh power to the grid per year, with more than 2,500 hours of wind power available time. The power price is just RMB 0.778/kWh, showing high economic benefits. As compared with conventional coal-fueled power plant, it can annually save about 110,000 T standard coal, while reducing 247,000 T emissions of carbon dioxide, representing not only social benefit but significant contribution to local environmental system.

As China’s first offshore wind power project, Longyuan Jiangsu Rudong 150MW Offshore (Intertidal Zone) Demonstration Wind Farm was officially approved by the National Development and Reform Commission on December 6, 2010. That Project is located on the offshore area of Rudong County. Wind turbine foundations are constructed with two technologies – single-pile and multiple-pile brackets. For Phase I of 100MW capacity, 17 Sinovel wind turbines with 3MW each and 21 Siemens wind turbines with 2.38MW each were installed. Construction works were kicked off on June 21, 2011, and Phase I became operational by year end. For Phase II of 50MW capacity, 20 Goldwind wind turbines with 2.5MW each were installed. After 4 months of construction, Phase II started to commercially generate power on November 23.

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Press release, November 26, 2012; Image: clypg