en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 5, the first batch of units at China National Energy Group's Longyuan Power Hainan Dongfang Qiyuan offshore wind farm were connected to the grid for power generation. This marks the Group's first offshore wind power project in Hainan, signifying a new breakthrough in the large-scale operation of China's high-capacity wind power units in the South China Sea. It injects strong momentum into the construction of Hainan as a clean energy island.
The project is located in the sea area west of Gancheng Town, Dongfang City, Hainan Province, with a total installed capacity of 500,000 kilowatts. It plans to install 42 wind turbines, including the first batch application in the Hainan region of 14-megawatt units. A new 220-kilovolt offshore booster station and an onshore centralized control center are being constructed simultaneously. It is one of the important offshore wind power demonstration projects in South China. Once fully operational, the project is expected to deliver over 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, meeting the electricity needs of approximately 1.2 million ordinary households. This is equivalent to reducing standard coal consumption by 467,000 tons and carbon dioxide emissions by 1.271 million tons each year, playing a significant role in optimizing Hainan's energy structure and promoting the achievement of the "dual carbon" goals.
During the construction phase, the project team faced challenges such as high temperatures, high humidity, complex seabed topography, complex isolated rock geology, and short operational windows. They optimized construction plans, scientifically planned the installation sequence, and precisely overcame construction bottlenecks. Innovative applications of cutting-edge technologies like "non-excavation directional drilling," combined with drone-assisted survey operations, ensured zero disturbance to the seabed ecosystem throughout the process, setting the second-longest record in China for "land-to-sea" directional drilling. Furthermore, to preserve potential activity space for marine life such as dolphins, the project proactively reduced the layout scale by eight wind turbines and invested over ten million yuan in ecological protection efforts, achieving coordinated progress in energy development and ecological conservation.
In recent years, China has positioned offshore wind power as a crucial direction for building a new energy system, achieving the "dual carbon" goals, and becoming a maritime power. It has achieved a leapfrog development from nearshore to deep-sea areas and from scale expansion to technology leadership. The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan clearly states that efforts will be made in the next five years to vigorously construct offshore wind power bases and promote deep-sea wind power development in a standardized and orderly manner. By the end of 2025, China National Energy Group's grid-connected offshore wind power capacity reached 5.21 million kilowatts, accounting for approximately 11% of the national total. Currently, the Group continues to deepen its efforts in the clean energy sector, using technological innovation as the engine and ecological protection as the bottom line, to fully advance the high-quality development of offshore wind power and contribute solid national energy strength to the realization of the country's "dual carbon" goals.
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