Fujian looks to expand wind power industry

The offshore wind power center at Xinghua Bay in Fuqing, Fujian province — one of the biggest of its kind in the world — aims to help develop a green, low-carbon new energy industry in the province.

Wind power devices there, with an annual production of 1.4 billion kilowatt hours, are able to provide electricity for 700,000 families of three people annually.

In February, an anti-typhoon offshore wind power generator with a capacity of 13 megawatts was produced in Fuqing. Made in China, it's the biggest of its kind in Asia for power per unit and impeller diameter.

Such a machine can provide 50 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity annually, reducing coal consumption by 15,000 metric tons and carbon dioxide emission by 38,000 tons.