Rudong county expands as green energy hub

Rudong county – administered by Nantong city in East China's Jiangsu province – took the lead in the region for green energy supply capacity in 2022, with a total of 10.11 billion cubic meters of exported natural gas and 13.01 billion kilowatt hours of on-grid electricity generated from new energy.

Located by the Yellow Sea, Rudong has abundant wind resources and solid industrial foundations. It also has obvious advantages in developing its green energy industry.

To date, Rudong has built 35 new energy projects, with a grid-connected installed capacity of over 6 million kilowatts and a liquefied natural gas – or LNG – handling and unloading scale annually of over 7 million metric tons. As such, it has become an important national new energy power base and a key LNG resource distribution center.

According to statistics, the PetroChina Jiangsu LNG Terminal at Yangkou Port in Rudong received a total of 82 LNG tankers last year, unloading 7.14 million tons of LNG and 16.31 million cu m of natural gas, hitting a record.

In Rudong's offshore area, apart from seeing an LNG lanker every four and a half days on average, the more impressive scenery is its "forest of windmills". The wind turbines – working day and night – deliver 35 million kWh of electricity to the East China power grid every day.

At present, a new fishing and solar system, costing 3 billion yuan ($443.39 million), is under construction in Rudong. When completed, the annual on-grid electricity output will reach 750 million kWh.

The system integrates fish farming with solar power panel generation, which makes it both eco-friendly and multifunctional.