A report has forecast that China’s wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade. According to the China Wind Power Outlook 2010 report, total installed wind power capacity will reach at least 150 gigawatts by 2020 compared with 25.8 gigawatts at the end of 2009.
The publishers of the report – Greenpeace, the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) – suggest a more optimistic estimate is 230 gigawatts over the next 10 years.
Renewable News reports Yang Ailun of Greenpeace China as saying that would be equal to 13 times the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam and could cut 410 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, or 150 million tons of coal consumption.