China Idles Fewer Wind Farms as Grid Connections Smoothed

Fewer of China’s wind turbines are idle after investments in new wind farms slowed and developments shifted to areas with better grid access, aiding operators such as China Longyuan Power Group Corp. (916)

The annual rate of China’s idled wind capacity may fall to 12 percent this year from 17 percent in 2012, Guo Yanheng, the deputy director of the National Renewable Energy Engineering Information Management Center, said in an interview. Ten percent of China’s wind power capacity was sitting unused in the first half of the year, 2 percentage points lower than a year ago, according to the center’s data.

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