China's rural areas have abundant and widely distributed wind energy resources. Recently, the National Energy Administration and two other departments jointly issued the "Notice on Organizing and Carrying Out the "Thousands of Villages Harnessing the Wind" Campaign" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), proposing to take villages as basic units and focus on constructing a group of wind power projects that can be developed and utilized locally and nearby.

Implementing the "Ten Thousand Villages Riding the Wind Campaign" is a powerful tool to promote the rural energy revolution and an important carrier to assist the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. Many experts said in an interview with People's Daily Online that launching the Ten Thousand Villages Riding the Wind Campaign is conducive to promoting high-quality development of rural renewable energy, enabling the wind power industry's benefits to reach "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers", and injecting new vitality into rural revitalization.

Exploring Multiple Energy Development Models

Unleashing a New Engine for Growth in Wind Power Development

Currently, China's wind power mainly focuses on the large-scale development in the north, northwest, and northeast regions. As low wind speed power generation technology becomes increasingly mature, the feasibility and economy of on-site and nearby wind power development in the central, east, and southeast regions are gradually improving. According to a relevant person in charge at the New Energy and Renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration.

In Fengshan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the That Binh-Bulao Shan wind power project plans a total installed capacity of 100,000 kilowatts, and a total investment of 820 million yuan. It is expected to achieve full-capacity grid-connected power generation in June this year. In Pinglu County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, the energy supply structure is continuously being optimized, and the development of wind power is being promoted on a large scale. The 506-megawatt wind and solar power project that has been connected to the grid is operating stably, and the new energy industry continues to expand...

"The notice focuses on difficulties and obstacles in distributed wind power development and proposes innovative approaches that differ from conventional wind power project development. It will guide the wind power industry to find a new development path beyond large-scale models, bases, and centralized power," said Qin Haiyan, secretary-general of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society's wind energy professional committee.

According to industry experts, developing the wind power industry can drive the growth and expansion of related industry clusters such as wind power equipment manufacturing, installation, and operation and maintenance, and promote the continuous improvement of related supporting industries such as smart grids and energy storage technology.

The "thousands-of-villages-and-townships taming the wind" pilot project continues to advance in various places across the country. Various types of land-saving, low-noise, high-efficiency, and intelligent wind turbine units and technologies have greatly promoted the development of related industries, facilitated the coordinated and unified development of rural economic, social, and environmental benefits, and propelled the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas as well as the sustainable and healthy development of renewable energies.

The new energy industry will play a major role in building livable and suitable rural areas, as well as contributing to rural revitalization and green development. The expert said that making full use of scattered land in rural areas to promote the local development and use of wind power based on local conditions has significant effects on increasing collective village economies, assisting comprehensive rural invigoration, promoting green and low-carbon transformation of rural energy, and achieving peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality.

Exploring new blue ocean markets

Accelerate the development of a green energy system

Carrying out the "Harness the Wind in Thousands of Towns and Villages" campaign will help promote green and low-carbon transformation of rural energy.

China boasts rich wind energy resources, which are widely distributed across the country. With the breakthrough of low wind speed technology, most areas in China, especially the low wind speed resource areas in southeastern and central China, have met the development conditions and have a development potential of over 3 billion kilowatts. Said Qin Haiyan.

With the gradual maturity of low-wind-speed power generation technology, it has become increasingly feasible and efficient to develop wind power locally in the southeast region of the Middle East. According to a relevant official from the New Energy and Renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, 1,000 villages with appropriate conditions will be selected for trial development each year. It is estimated that each village will have an installed capacity of 20,000 kilowatts, with 20 million kilowatts of new wind power installed annually, and new investment of about 100 billion yuan, which will not only open up new market space for wind power development but also expand investment and stabilize growth.

According to industry experts, the release of the "Notice" will significantly drive the development of the wind power sector, and as China continues to increase its support for clean energy, the wind power industry will usher in broader development opportunities.

Implement the Thousand Villages and Ten Thousand Hamlets Wind Power Action to promote the development of wind power in rural areas. Integrate it with rural distributed photovoltaic and biomass power generation to achieve multi-energy complementation and deep integration, which will help adjust the rural energy structure, promote the rural energy revolution, and contribute to the realization of carbon emission peak and carbon neutrality goals.

Currently, various regions in China are gradually building green energy systems, with multiple types of comprehensive energy services, such as multi-energy complementarity, energy efficiency management, orderly implementation of demand response, and intelligent energy consumption, to optimize the energy structure of each region, improve energy utilization efficiency, and open up new space for the development of wind power markets in various regions, said industry experts.

The next step is to innovate wind power investment and construction models and land use mechanisms, focus on implementing the action of "Harnessing the Wind in Thousands of Towns and Villages", vigorously promote the development of wind power in rural areas, encourage village collectives to use existing collective land through mechanisms such as contributing shares in exchange for funds and sharing benefits, participating in the development of distributed wind power projects, actively promoting the implementation and fulfillment of planning and policies, and providing better policy safeguards for the development of distributed wind power. The above-mentioned person in charge revealed.

Carry out Operation to Tame the Wind in the light of local conditions

Infusing New Vitality into Rural Revitalization

The “Notice” proposes exploring the establishment of a new model for wind power investment and construction based on “village-enterprise cooperation”, a new mechanism for revenue distribution based on “joint construction and sharing”, and a new pattern for wind power development and utilization featuring that “villages have wind power, collectives increase their income, and villagers benefit”.

implementing the "Thousands of Towns and Villages Riding the Wind" action, the first priority is to act locally and plan systematically. In Qin Haiyan's opinion, it is necessary to combine the abundant wind energy resources and scattered idle land in rural areas, comprehensively consider the needs of economic and social development, ecological and environmental protection requirements, grid bearing capacity, and production and operation safety, and scientifically and reasonably arrange the scale, site selection, and layout of wind power projects to ensure that projects can be developed and utilized locally to maximize benefits.

At the same time, we should adhere to the principle of "building when possible, and piloting first," and implement, one by one, projects that meet the conditions. We should avoid blindly following the trend or rushing to do the same thing at the same time, and ensure that the action of guiding the wind in thousands of villages and towns proceeds steadily and orderly. Qin Haiyan said.

All localities actively leverage local advantages and combine rural characteristics to promote the rapid and orderly development of the wind power industry. In Huaibin County, Xinyang, Henan Province, 295 6.25 MW wind turbines have been successfully installed in 19 townships, providing a continuous stream of clean energy to the local area; in Dunhua City, Yanbian, Jilin Province, construction of a 300,000-kilowatt wind power project has started, and preparations for the Green Power Industrial Park have been accelerated; in Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia, the new energy installed capacity of 3 million kilowatts is planned to be completed in three phases, and the "Three North" project and the wind power and photovoltaic integration project continue to advance.

The pilot project of "Harnessing the Wind Action in Thousands of Villages" realizes revenue sharing by activating the stock of rural collective land, bringing considerable collective economic income to the local rural areas, and promoting the implementation of the goal of ensuring increased income for the masses and promoting rural revitalization, which injects new vitality into rural revitalization.

"Wind power companies are actively exploring the integration of local cultural elements into project design, which can not only promote the organic integration of wind power development and rural style, but also activate rural tourism resources." Qin Haiyan suggested that the adoption of land-saving, low-noise, high-efficiency and intelligent wind turbines and technologies suitable for rural environments should be encouraged to achieve synergy and complementarity with rural energy and deep integration with rural industries. (Wang Shaoshao)

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