来自发改委的消息显示，中国继续在可再生能源领域加大投资，预计到2050年，风力发电装机容量将达到1000GW。
截止到2010年底，风力发电装机容量是41GW，因此，风力发电还有巨大的发展空间。
今年4月底市场研究公司Lucintel的一份报告显示，过去十几年中，中国一直在加强风力发电的发展，并逐渐成为世界上风电装机容量最大的国家。中国的风机制造公司取得了快速的发展，非常短的时间内，中国本土出现了大量风机制造公司。
该报告还显示， 2005-2010年间，中国风力发电的复合年增长率是104%，2010年，总装机容量达到了44734MW。预计，2011-2016年间，中国风力发电的复合念增长率还将达到19%。
China continues to create headlines in the area of renewable energy — this time, concerning the wind power generating capacity it might reach by 2050 – some 1,000 gigawatts! China is already the world’s largest generator of wind energy capacity.
The news comes from a study prepared by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which has broad control over the Chinese economy.
The total of 1,000 GW would represent a dramatic increase from the 41 GW of wind power capacity it showed at the end of 2010.
Political and economic maneuvering aside, this is positive news from a climate perspective because the potential capacity of 1,000 gigawatts would reduce the country’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 gigatons a year, roughly equivalent to the combined carbon dioxide emissions of Germany, France, and Italy in 2009, the study from the NRDC’s Energy Research Institute showed.
Bottom line: such renewable energy capacity would generate about 17 percent of China’s electricity output in 2050, compared to the present 1 percent number.
As reported last April by the market research company Lucintel, over the last decade, China has been strengthening its position in wind energy generation and gradually emerged as the first largest installed base of wind turbines in the world. The wind turbine manufacturing sector in China has experienced a rapid development, as lots of domestic manufacturers have emerged within a short span of time.
“China is one of the world’s pioneers in the wind power development,” the report said.
The report added that wind energy in China has grown at a CAGR of 104 percent in the last five years (2005-2010), on a cumulative installation basis, and reached 44,734 MW in 2010. The market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 19 percent for the next five years (2011-2016) on cumulative MW installations.