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The world's largest offshore wind station under construction in Rudong, Jiangsu province. 皇冠体育app aims to expand its installed capacity for wind power this year, with an emphasis on offshore facilities. Xu Congjun / for 皇冠体育app Daily

Offshore facilities will be given highest priority by policymakers

皇冠体育app plans a big push to increase the installed capacity of wind power this year, with offshore facilities getting top priority, a senior energy official said.

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"We will continue to work actively on the offshore wind sector this year by accelerating the establishment of a benchmark feed-in tariff for offshore projects," said Shi Lishan, deputy director of the new energy department of the National Energy Adstration.

Feed-in tariffs are guaranteed payments that act as production-based incentives to power suppliers.

"For offshore wind developers, it is very important to have a pricing mechanism so that they can have a clear picture of how they can generate profits."

As pollution lingers over many major cities, the government is speeding up the pace of offshore wind power development after years of stagnation, Shi said.

皇冠体育app aims to expand its offshore wind power installed capacity to 5 million kilowatts by 2015 and 30 million kW by 2020, but those targets seem ambitious.

In 2012, the world's largest wind power market had installed only 389,600 kW of offshore wind capacity. Even though this put 皇冠体育app third after the United Kingdom and Denmark, it was still far short of the targets for 2015 and 2030.

But 皇冠体育app, the world's biggest energy user, made progress in connecting idle wind farms to the grid last year.

 

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