NEW CHINA OCEAN WIND GETS GO

Go-ahead for Chinese 198MW offshore project
Wu Qi, 30 January 2012 (Windpower Monthly)

"South China's Guangdong province will construct a 198MW offshore wind farm this year which should be connected to the grid in 2014.

"The project, located in waters off the Guishan district of Zhuhai city [near downtown Zhuhai, and only three nautical miles from Lantau Island, Hong Kong, and 17 nautical miles from Macao], will be the first offshore wind farm in the province…"

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"…[The project] will be built with a total investment of CNY 4.45 billion ($704.8 million), principally from China Southern Power Grid Comprehensive Energy and Guangdong Electric Power. Turbines will be supplied through public tender…

"…[T]he waters in the Guishan area may become home to 250MW of wind farms, boasting as it does average annual wind speeds of 7-8 metres per second. Guangdong is among the top three areas in the country with a rich offshore wind resource — an estimated 75GW of potential generation in waters 30-50 metres deep…Guangdong expects to start constructing three to four 1GW size offshore wind farms in 2015."