The 1 million-kilowatt floating offshore wind power project invested and built by Power Construction Corporation of China broke ground in Wanning, South China's Hainan Province on Dec 26, 2022. It is expected to improve China's offshore wind power technology and promote industrial upgrading.
Deepsea wind power will play a key role in the future clean energy market.
The Wanning floating offshore wind power project is expected to be the world's largest of its kind once operational and a key offshore wind power project in the region during the nation's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period.
The project is intended to have an installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts and is designed to generate about 4.2 billion kilowatt-hours of power annually.
It is scheduled to be built in two phases: the first phase includes construction of facilities with installed capacity of 200,000 kW and the second phase will involve construction of 800,000 kW of installed capacity. The two phases are scheduled to be put into operation by the end of 2025 and 2027.
Once operational, the project will support the country's formation of a complete large-capacity original deepsea floating offshore wind power technology system, and cultivate its capacity for supplying floating wind power equipment and supporting devices and services to the industrial chain.
It will also give the country design, construction and engineering technologies of floating offshore wind power projects to stabilize its global competitiveness in the world, and is consequently of great significance to national energy transformation and new-type power system construction.
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
