China’s goal to go green in the Middle Kingdom moves forward due to the wind and the sea along China’s long coast, which runs about 9,010 miles or 14,300 km.
“China has the largest wind resources in the world, and three-quarters of them are offshore,” Barbara Finamore, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Beijing office, told Scientific American.
China has an estimated offshore wind power potential of more than 750 gigawatts, far greater than the country’s land-based wind potential of 253 gigawatts. Source: UPI.com
Wind Daily says that China will be launching four offshore wind-power projects soon with a total installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts.
There’s an advantage having China’s government when it comes to cleaning the environment and creating green energy. In the U.S., the first potential offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts took nearly a decade for approval and still faces potential regulatory and judicial obstacles.
While the U.S. struggles to get clearance for its first offshore wind farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm started producing energy September 2010 off the British coast with 300 megawatts, which is enough electricity to heat about 200,000 British homes. Source: Reuters.com
In China, the first offshore wind farm is near Shanghai and started supplying power to the city in July, 2010 with between 200 and 300 megawatts expected by the end of this year. Shanghai plans building 13 more offshore wind-power plants by 2020. Source: Offshore Wind.biz
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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