China Wind power industry
With the rising costs of non-renewable fuels because of increased demand with lowered availability of these fossil fuels has led to a demand for renewable sources of energy.
A form of renewable energy is wind energy, which has been harnessed for producing electricity for quite some time now.
Many countries around the world have wind power industries, including China.
The main reason China had immediate needs of harnessing wind power for producing electricity is because of the frequent summer power shortages in China. In fact, many people in east Zhejiang, China have to cope without any electricity for three days a week because of its power shortages.
The answer to these problems today is the use of wind turbines to generate power. Wind power is a great alternate source of energy as wind is a permanent source of energy, unlike water and coal, which are sources of energy which may run out soon. The main thing required to harness wind power is a continuous source of wind energy, which is found in many areas in china.
In some regions in China like the 1,200 meter Kuocang mountain, there is a gale all year round. This is why you find a wind farm here that has a band of workers maintaining 33 turbines, which has been running at a profit for six years.
However as China has to always rely on imported technology, this is not always a wise option for the people in China as it proves to be rather expensive. Moreover Danish generators can’t cope with the humidity wherein China suffers an annual loss of 1 million yuans because of frozen fans.
Moreover, though this plant produces about 80,000 kW hours of electricity in a day, it is not sufficient to feed a town of 500,000 people. It is only when there are typhoons and storms that more power is generated in these wind farms.
Though China has the capacity of generating a billion kW of wind energy in a year, only a fraction of that amount, in fact, 0.0005% is being harnessed today. The main obstacle to the harnessing of wind energy in China is money as wind farms are expensive and investors are rather hesitant in investing in them.
This is more because the cost of generating wind energy today stands to be double the cost of generating electricity from coal in China.
Though generation of electricity from coal is cheaper than wind power, the costs of human health and the environment of coal burning is a point that China is still considering about using coal to produce electricity.
In addition to this, using coal leads to the use of natural resources which is again, not feasible in the long run. Remember that wind power is on the contrary, permanent where you have wind practically everywhere, all the time.
The increased need for energy in China has now led to China seeing an important need in promoting renewable energy in wind power to meet the increased electricity needs in China.
This is why it is soon predicted to see many turbines spinning on the horizons of China.
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