China Restricts New Wind Power in Parts Where Turbines Idle
- China will use Gansu as test case on how to ease idle turbines
- Halted wind power output rose 69 percent last year from 2014
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China is clamping down on the ability of local authorities to plan new wind-power projects in regions where the most turbines standing idle, slowing the expansion of the industry to a pace manageable for the electricity grid.
The regions include northern provinces of Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang, the National Energy Administration said in a statement on Thursday. The NEA will use Gansu, which had the highest rate of idling in the nation last year, as a pilot to demonstrate how to address wasted wind power.