Near the beach in Kent, England Thanet wind power plant to begin operations, the wind power plant is the world’s largest offshore wind power station. It is reported that the wind power plant cost over 750 million pounds, with a 100 turbo motor, huge power produced is sufficient to meet the needs of 200,000 households.
Investment Advisor in Senior Fellow Li Sheng-mao said the UK is an island, has a very long coastline resources, for development of offshore wind power provides a good condition. Wind power is clean, renewable resources, increasing emphasis in the global context of low-carbon economy, the British efforts to increase offshore wind power as represented by renewable energy generating capacity in proportion of total electricity generation, has multiple meanings.
Investment Advisor in the recent release of “2010-2015 China’s wind power industry, investment analysis and forecast report” noted that, while land-based wind power technology, compared with the current offshore wind power generators technology need to improve many places, such as the high cost of power generation, unstable fan operation, etc., but in the long run, once the offshore wind power related technologies are breakthroughs will rapidly increase its installed capacity, particularly in wind power, the advantages of scale offshore wind power will be well reflected.
Offshore wind farm with wind resources, and relatively stable characteristics, which is its greatest advantage. Most offshore wind farm in waters far away from the shoreline, mostly in those areas with the wind, or currents through the area, many years of wind resources are more abundant and stable, and the layout of the wind generators in such a sea power theory will not be space constraints. The majority of onshore wind farm is not very rich in wind resources, and the layout will be more or less limited land resources, which is the average in the stand-alone capacity, offshore wind farm is greater than the reasons for land-based wind farm .
Li Sheng-mao believes that the development of offshore wind turbines in China has a unique advantage. On the one hand, China’s long and winding coastline, but also distributed a large number of offshore islands, which greatly enhance the domestic capacity of offshore wind has laid a good foundation. In addition, domestic consumption is the largest region in eastern coastal areas, such offshore wind farm electricity production can be very easily transported to the area, maximize the economic value of offshore wind power plant.
At present, the construction of offshore wind farm is still in the initial stage, the relative land-based wind power, the development is slow, the reasons for this phenomenon are many. On the one hand, a giant offshore wind turbine wind farm needs, most of the current domestic wind turbine generator equipment company can not produce such products, if the wind power equipment to rely on imports, then the capital cost of offshore wind farm will be greatly increased; In addition, offshore wind farm because the operating environment is more severe, along with related technology has not been overcome, so fans of the high failure rate, which virtually has also increased the cost of offshore wind power generation.
Investment Advisor in the Research Director Zhang Yan Lin pointed out that some European countries are to develop offshore wind power, offshore wind power in the region in recent years, the installed capacity growing very rapidly, and the rapid development of offshore small wind turbines equipment industry has also raised new requirements, both have created a virtuous cycle and mutually reinforcing effect, China can learn from this development experience, while reducing the cost of offshore wind power generation business and government is the main direction of efforts.

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