Asia's First Flexible Offshore Wind Power Project Goes into Operation

The Rudong H6 wind power project in East China's Jiangsu Province was put into operation on Nov 29, a step of great significance in development of China's large-capacity and long-distance offshore wind power technology.

The project was invested and built by China Three Gorges Renewables (Group) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG).

In addition to the H6 project, CTG was also responsible for construction of the Rudong H10 offshore wind power project. Both the H6 and H10 projects are equipped with 100 4-megawatt wind turbines and transmit their generated power to an offshore convertor station with the world's largest volume and capacity and highest voltage level through a high-voltage and flexible direct current (DC) power transmission cable, the world-leader in voltage and length. According to CTG, the power will be connected to the Jiangsu power grid by the end of this year.

The flexible DC power transmission system is the most advanced technology in the field in the world at present.

About 2.4 billion kilowatt-hours of power generated by the projects are expected to connect to the grid annually, meeting yearly power demand of 1 million three-member households.

The power volume is the same as that produced by burning about 740,000 metric tons of standard coal and is an equivalent to reduction of about 1.83 million tons of carbon dioxide, which contributes to achieving China's goals of peaking carbon dioxide emission by 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality by 2060.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)