Wind Could Provide 26% of China's Electricity by 2030

Despite increasingly severe curtailment of Chinese wind farms in favor of coal-fired generation, a first-of-a-kind energy dispatch model finds that the country can accommodate a lot of additional wind power

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A truck drives past a wind farm in Xinjiang, China.
Installing wind farms in China's gusty northern provinces, such as here in Xinjiang, may produce more costly energy due to grid integration challenges.
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