China has potential to be world’s biggest wind energy market by 2020
In our last article about wind power market in the US, the US wind energy market will see a surge in 2010. And some researches show that China could at least double its current wind energy (wind power) target for 2020.
A few years ago, Energy Bureau Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Xu Dingming said: “The development of renewable energy plays a crucial strategic role in the power supply of China. Wind energy growth in China is now on a fast track and globally we believe that wind power will become the primary alternative energy in the future.”
According to one report, China’s current wind energy (wind power) plan is to reach 20 Gigawatts (GW) by 2020. And we know that Germany, the world wind energy leader today, has just under 17GW. But the experts within the Chinese wind energy industry believe that 40 Gigawatts (GW) can be delivered in 2020; rising to ten times this by 2050. This scale of wind power would need 20,000 typical modern wind turbines by 2020. The investment generated could be worth USD 40 billion; putting China on track to become the world’s biggest wind energy market by 2020.
Let's put our eyes on China's total wind energy resources.
The capacity of wind potential in viable windy locations in China is large enough.
Climate change and energy security demand wind power and other clean energy. And it’s time for the world to support China and put Chinese wind power on an even faster track.
In fact China is rapidly becoming one the world’s most important wind energy markets, what's more, there is major potential here for growth of wind energy.
