page_title: Wind power in China
section_title: Offshore wind
hierarchical_section_title: Wind power in China / Offshore wind
caption_attribution_description: 中文（中国大陆）‎: 东海大桥海上风力发电场 English: Donghai Bridge wind farm, Shanghai
context_page_description: China is the world leader in wind power generation, with the largest installed capacity of any nation and continued rapid growth in new wind facilities.
  With its large land mass and long coastline, China has exceptional wind power resources: it is estimated China has about 2,380 gigawatts of exploitable capacity on land and 200 GW on the sea.
  In 2016, China added 19.3 GW of wind power generation capacity to reach a total capacity of 149 GW, and generated 241 TWh of electricity, representing 4% of total national electricity consumption.
  Both China's installed capacity and new capacity in 2015 are the largest in the world by a wide margin, with the next largest market, the United States, adding 8.6 GW in 2015 and having an installed capacity of 74.4 GW.
  Wind power in the United States has however a much higher capacity factor.
  China is forecast to have 250 GW of wind capacity by 2020 as part of the government's pledge to produce 15 percent of all electricity from renewable resources by that year.
  The Chinese government has set out a road map for wind power up to 2050.
  Wind power capacity goals are to reach 400 GW by 2030 and 1,000 GW by 2050.
context_section_description: China set an ambitious goal of 5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2015 and 30 GW by 2020.
  However, development of offshore wind power did not come as fast as expected. 
  Construction of Donghai Bridge Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in China started in April 2009, close to Donghai Bridge, and commissioned in 2010 to provide electricity to the 2010 Shanghai Expo. 
  The wind farm consists of 34 Sinovel 3 MW wind turbines at a cost of US$ 102 million.
  The next is the 150 MW Longyuan Rudong Intertidal Wind Farm costing 500 million ¥, operational in 2012.
  By the end of 2012, China had only installed 389.6 MW offshore wind capacity, still far from the target goal of 5 GW by the end of 2015.
  In May 2014, total capacity of offshore wind power in China was 565 MW,
  which raised to about 900 MW in 2015, less than a fifth of the expected target.
  Installations increased substantially in 2016, with 592 MW of offshore wind power capacity deployed, ranking third in the world behind Germany and the Netherlands.
  By the end of 2016, the total cumulative offshore wind power capacity in the country was 1.9 GW.
  Offshore wind development slower pace in China is mainly due to the lack of experience of domestic turbine manufacturers in the sector. This forces local development to use foreign products, resulting in Siemens being the largest supplier of offshore wind turbines in China. Another problem is the huge investment needed and associated risks of offshore development, which discourage private companies.
  On 5 August 2020, a new report revealed by the Global Wind Energy Council stated that China is expected to host more than a fifth of the world’s offshore wind turbines, equating to 52 GW, claiming the top spot for the largest market for offshore wind by 2030.
caption: Donghai Bridge Wind Farm
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