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How has China's Wind power capacity redrawn the energy mix?

Beyond cementing China's place in the international green energy hierarchy, the climb in wind power capacity has helped redraw the energy mix across several key provinces. China's operational wind installations are spread out across 30 provinces, 10 of which have installed capacity in excess of 10,000MW, GEM data sbows.

Does China have more wind power than Europe?

China added more wind generation capacity in the past two years than over the previous seven, and in 2022 generated 46% more wind power than all of Europe, the second largest wind generation market, according to data from think tank Ember.

Does China have more wind power than solar?

While China has deployed record volumes of both solar and wind power capacity over the past decade, wind generation capacity has grown more steeply than solar capacity since 2020.

How has China's wind capacity changed over the past two years?

Over the past two years, the average annual increase in China's wind capacity was 178.6 terawatt hours (TWh), or 350% more than the average annual increase from 2015 through 2020. In contrast, China's solar capacity grew by an average of 78.3 TWh in 2021-22, or roughly twice the yearly growth pace of 39.6 TWh from 2015 to 2020.

How much wind power will China have by 2020?

The national government has set a target of 200 GW of installed capacity by the year 2020. Indeed, according to China Wind Power Outlook 2012, by 2020, capacity could soar to between 200 and 300 GW . However, the industry is not yet mature and Chinese-made wind turbines have a shorter track-record than those manufactured in Europe.

Will more wind energy installations boost China's Energy Transition?

But more wind energy installations are also expected to be part of China's development mix going forward, which should further accelerate China's ongoing energy transition efforts and potentially widen China's lead over other markets in terms of renewable energy deployment.