The nation’s wind curtailment rate rose to an average of 15% in 2015, as cumulative installed capacity hit approximately 129GW on 32.97GW of new yearly capacity additions, according to recent NEA figures.
A record 33.9 billion kilowatt-hours of generated capacity did not reach the grid last year, the NEA said.
It has ordered the authorities in the most heavily curtailed parts of China — including Gansu, Jilin, Heilongjiang provinces, as well as the Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Xinjiang regions — to reduce the number of new wind farms they approve for development, so existing capacity can be utilised.
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