China's offshore wind power industry is developing at an alarming rate. According to industry analysts, as various parts of China accelerate the construction of offshore wind power projects, other offshore wind power projects originally scheduled to start construction before the end of this year will be accelerated. This trend will bring huge development opportunities to China's offshore wind power industry. According to data from China Economic Network, since the beginning of this year, local governments across China have approved 21 offshore wind power construction projects, with a total installed capacity of 10.1 gigawatts.
This shows that the Chinese government attaches great importance to and supports the offshore wind power industry. As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China actively promotes the development of clean energy. As a renewable energy source, offshore wind power has huge potential and advantages. As a form of clean energy, offshore wind power is of great significance to reducing carbon emissions and protecting the environment. At the same time, the construction of offshore wind power projects also provides new employment opportunities for related industrial chains and promotes economic growth.
Important components of the energy transition
Industry insiders agree that offshore wind power has great potential to promote the global energy transformation. On the one hand, compared with onshore wind power, offshore wind power has more stable wind power and larger power generation, which has multiple advantages; on the other hand, offshore wind farms can be established as close to the coastal load center as possible to provide more energy for the power system. Stable, valuable energy. Judging from the situation of each province, 10 provinces in my country have grid-connected installed capacity, and the grid-connected scale of six provinces, Guangdong, Shandong, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, all exceed one million kilowatts.
It can be seen that my country's offshore wind power has improved its technical equipment and operation and maintenance levels and laid a good foundation. At the same time, driven by the background of energy transformation, countries are paying more and more attention to the development of offshore wind power and actively deploying it, with close international cooperation. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, global offshore wind power installed capacity will reach nearly 500 GW by 2030. This means that offshore wind power has great potential, but international cooperation still needs to be further strengthened.
Deep sea development is the direction
Currently, countries around the world have proposed offshore wind power development goals, and there is huge potential for global offshore wind power development in the future. Judging from international experience, moving from offshore to offshore wind power will be an inevitable trend in the large-scale development of offshore wind power. "From a global perspective, wind energy resources are abundant in areas far offshore. In addition, human activities are more frequent in offshore areas. Wind power development needs to be far away from these areas. It is inevitable that offshore wind power will go to the deep sea." New Energy Institute of East China Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd. Vice President Chen Xiaofeng said that currently, global deep-sea wind power is gradually entering the commercial development stage. The existing projects are mainly distributed in Europe and China. China has carried out test demonstration projects for flexible DC transmission, floating wind turbines and foundations.
Technological innovation and industrial improvement will be the key to supporting the healthy development of offshore wind power in the future, such as promoting offshore energy island demonstrations and increasing the application of offshore flexible power transmission and transformation. To achieve large-capacity deep-sea offshore wind power transmission, flexible power transmission and transformation technologies such as flexible DC and low-frequency AC will become the key. Research should be further strengthened and demonstration applications should be carried out to lead my country's offshore wind power to achieve high-quality development.