Once completed, the 49.5MW project will feature 33 Guodian turbines. The wind farm is situated on a plateau in Nagqu county, north of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
China's National Energy Administration approved the project on 19 March, 2012. Longyuan described the approval process as “complex” partly because local farmers and herdsmen objected.
“Longyuan has long dreamed of building a wind farm in Tibet,” the company said in a Chinese-language statement.
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