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Table 6.3
CHINA WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT FROM INCEPTION TO CUSP OF
BOOM (1989-2007)
Capacity
Added (MW)
Cumulative
Capacity (MW)
Year
# of Projects
# of Turbines
1989
2
18
2.45
2.45
1991
1
3
0.39
2.84
1992
3
14
3.3
6.14
1993
3
12
4
10.14
1994
5
49
12.9
23.04
1995
5
39
9.6
32.64
1996
10
70
24.8
57.44
1997
10
151
84.65
142.09
1998
10
123
71.9
213.99
1999
12
83
50.25
264.24
2000
12
125
77.34
341.58
2001
11
91
57.21
398.79
2002
13
109
66.31
465.1
2003
18
131
98.3
563.4
2004
15
249
196.75
760.15
2005
36
595
506.91
1267.06
2006
55
1452
1335.65
2602.71
2007
121
3155
3303.65
5906.36
342
6469
Source
: China Wind Power website.
his regulation catalyzed investment in Chinese plants by foreign wind
manufacturers and stimulated a series of joint ventures between foreign
wind turbine irms and Chinese manufacturing concerns.
29
It also cre-
ated a market bias in favor of state-owned enterprises such as Sinovel and
Goldwind, which were pursuing government-funded wind turbine develop-
ment programs. he continued fair-proit guarantees granted to wind power
developers along with ramped up market activity created by the Ride the
Wind Program caused cumulative capacity to increase tenfold from 57.44
MW at the end of 1996 to 563.4 MW at the end of 2003.
In 2003, the NDRC incorporated lessons from a three-year power pool
trial program in Shanghai city and Zhejiang and Shandong provinces into
a concession system for selecting large-scale wind power projects.
30
It took
a few years under the system for participants to become adept at estimating
project costs and beneits; consequently, many bids were unproitable during
the irst years of the program. However, in addition to catalyzing growth in
large-scale wind power projects, the concession system gave the State Power
