First Sino-Foreign Offshore Wind Power Project Put into Operation

On November 20, the first Sino-foreign joint offshore wind power project—China Energy-funded Dongtai offshore wind farm in Jiangsu Province—was connected to the power grid and started providing power to the national grid at full capacity, marking another achievement in China-EU new energy cooperation and the success of the first Sino-foreign joint construction of an offshore wind power farm.

The project has a total installed capacity of 500 MW, and a total investment of around 8 billion yuan (about $1.253 billion). Under the witness of the heads of state of China and France, China Energy Investment Corporation signed a cooperation agreement with Electricite de France to jointly build and operate the project.

The construction team has solved the challenge of epidemic prevention and control and problems such as insufficient equipment supply, shortage of construction ships, difficulty for the ships to enter and exit from high beach positions, and short effective time window by optimizing the design of construction drawings, refining construction plans, strengthening on-site organization, innovating and upgrading the construction equipment, etc. As a result, safe and efficient progress has been made in building a centralized onshore control center, laying 220 kV submarine cables, hoisting and live operation of offshore booster stations, pile sinking and hoisting of fan foundations, etc., thus successfully completing all construction tasks.

The project is expected to generate 1.39 billion kWh of electricity a year, meeting the needs of 2 million residents, equivalent to saving 441,900 tons of standard coal and reducing 937,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and 1,704 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions.