China grid-connected 15GW of wind power in 2017 – a drop in new turbine installations for the second year running and a figure dwarfed by solar – but an easing of curtailment and a looming end to subsidies is expected to drive additions back up in the closing years of the decade.

Data released by National Energy Administration (NEA) shows the extra 15GW brought China’s cumulative capacity to 163.7GW,