Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Inner Mongolia is one of China's pioneering provinces in its rapidly growing wind power industry. Wind resources across Inner Mongolia are very favorable. The region is very suitable to develop large scaled wind farms on the order of 50MW to 300+ MW.

Wind resource

The estimated economically viable capacity for wind energy in Inner Mongolia is 101GW, accounting for 40% in China. Annual average full load hours are approximately 2400 hours.

Wind project activity

Six HuiTengXiLe, DaLi, XiLinHaoTe, SaiHanBa, ZhuRiHe and ShangDu wind power stations have already been completed in this province, with a total installation capacity of 166MW.

Total planned projects exceed 1000MW as of 2006. Inner Mongolia total installed wind power capacity could be greater than 4000MW by 2010, and will be top in the whole nation.

Transportation

Large sections of Inner Mongolia are within 200—400 km of Beijing and Tianjin (which are major power consumption areas). There are over 20 major railroads in Inner Mongolia, and a vast network of modern roads. Transportation of turbines and installation equipment is well supported by this infrastructure.

Transmission

In recent years, Inner Mongolia electrical operation company has invested RMB8 billion on building 5 transmission sub-stations and lines with a capacity of 500 kV and more than 30 smaller substations. A 500kV electrical network from WuHai in the west to FengZhen in the east has been improved from 220 kV to 500 kV. In September 2005, there were 35 power generators connected to the Inner Mongolia grid with total installed capacity of 10 GW. Therefore, there is a large and growing electric power network to transport wind energy to the major load centers of Beijing, Tianjin and other areas.