Since joining the Xinjiang Wind Energy Company in 1987, this year is the 31st year of Jinfeng Technology's chairman Wu Gang's participation in China's wind power industry. As an old wind power man, he has been a teacher, and has been a teacher of WISCO's history of China's wind power development. What are the exclusive memories and what are the expectations for the future of the industry?
Industry 'Seed' Dabancheng
China Energy News: How did you get involved with the wind power industry?
WISCO: After graduating from high school, I went to Xinjiang in Xinjiang. After graduating from college, I taught a power generation program in a secondary school. After more than four years of teaching, I feel that school life is too comfortable. I like this challenging thing in my nature. The social background is the energy crisis. Countries are developing energy development strategies around the energy crisis. Fossil energy will take thousands of years to form. Renewable energy such as wind and solar energy is everywhere. In this context, renewable energy The industry began to receive attention from all countries. In 1985, the wind power industry in Xinjiang began to take off. In 1987, I left the teacher position and officially entered the wind power industry, which has been 31 years.
China Energy News: In your memory, when did China's wind power develop?
WISCO: When it comes to the start of China's wind power industry, several wind power projects have to be mentioned, such as Xinjiang Dabancheng Wind Farm, Inner Mongolia Zhuri and Wind Farm, Shandong Rongcheng Malan Wind Farm, etc. These projects were jointly played in the 1980s. The prelude to Chinese wind power.
Xinjiang Dabancheng Wind Farm - one of the earliest wind farms in China
In particular, the Dabancheng Wind Farm has played a role as a 'seed' in the wind power industry. In China, most people who engage in wind power have gone to Dabancheng.
Witness the start of China's wind power industry
China Energy News: You directly participated in the development, construction, and operation of the Dabancheng Wind Farm. Can you tell us the story behind the Dabancheng Wind Farm?
WISCO: In 1985, it was a special year in the history of China's wind power industry development. It can be regarded as the starting year of the wind power industry in Xinjiang and even the whole country. At that time, the Xinjiang Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower, under the leadership of the old predecessor Wang Wenqi, explored wind power generation.
In November 1985, Wang Wenqi accompanied the relevant person in charge of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Huang Baozhen, the Xinjiang Water Resources Department and the Ministry of Water and Electricity, and other relevant responsible persons to participate in the European wind power research group organized by the Ministry of Water and Electricity, and purchased the Danish Wincon company from abroad. The wind turbines returned to China for preliminary tests. In December 1986, a wind power test station was established on the shore of the Chaiwopu Lake in the Dabancheng Valley. At that time, the wind turbines performed very well, and the annual equipment utilization hours reached 3000 hours. The performance of the operation immediately attracted the attention of European counterparts. Subsequently, with the Danish grant of 3.2 million US dollars, 13 sets of 150 kW stalled wind turbines of Bonus and one Wincon 100 kW unit were imported, and the total installed capacity was completed in October 1989. The 2050 kW Xinjiang Dabancheng Wind Farm became the largest wind farm in China and even Asia at that time.
In 1992, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Power Bureau introduced the Danish government's hybrid loan and began construction of the Dabancheng Wind Farm Phase II. It was completed and put into operation in December 1994. Its installed capacity reached 10.1 MW, making it the first installed capacity in China to exceed 10,000 kW. The wind farm, including 4 Bonus 500 kW and 35-meter impeller-type stall units, was the largest single-unit capacity in the country at that time. In 1995, the Ministry of Power Industry hosted an on-site meeting in Dabancheng to summarize and promote the experience and accelerate the development of national wind power. use.
China Energy News: It is the early wind power projects such as Dabancheng that drove the rise of China's wind power equipment manufacturing. How does Dabancheng Wind Farm support the development of localized equipment?
WISCO: When I first entered the wind power industry, the cost of land-based wind power units exceeded 17,000 yuan, and the cost per kilowatt of equipment reached 9,000 yuan. Such high costs reminded Chinese wind power people that localization of equipment must be carried out.
Before 2000, the Dabancheng Wind Farm relied mainly on imported equipment. Therefore, it can be seen in the early ten models of wind power manufacturers in Europe. From 1995 to 1996, the German government launched the 'Golden Plan', which provides 2/3 of the equipment price. Grant assistance to support developing countries in building wind power and other new energy projects. After hard work, we seized this rare opportunity to expand the first phase of Dabancheng Wind Power through three projects of the 'Golden Plan' and introduced three The manufacturer's 8 large-scale wind turbines, including the well-known Tacke, Jacbos and other companies at that time, laid the technical and ideological conditions for the localization of large-scale wind turbines.
Dabancheng Wind Farm is also the earliest wind farm to use domestic wind turbine equipment. In 1998, Xinjiang Fengfeng Science and Technology Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Goldwind Technology, was established. In the same year, Xinjiang Wind Energy Company and Xinjiang Wind Energy Research Institute jointly assumed the Ministry of Science and Technology. 'Study on the project - the development of 600 kW domestic wind turbines, based on the introduction and digestion of foreign advanced technology, adhere to the improvement and innovation based on China's national conditions, and put into operation in the Dabancheng wind farm, marking the localization of the fan One step. It is the application of the wind farm in Dabancheng, which has driven the domestic 600 kW wind turbine to achieve good performance in terms of scale and marketization.
At the source, Goldwind Technology is born out of wind power investors, developers, operators, and transformed into equipment manufacturers. It is precisely because of the 'customer' genes from the beginning that the company has reached today's height.
Taking history as a guide, facing the future
China Energy News: Looking back on the history of development for decades, what do you think is the biggest achievement of China's wind power?
WISCO: The achievements of China's wind power are not only reflected in the change of installed capacity, it has created a miracle in the world, which is to achieve the scale development of wind power. Early foreign onshore wind power is basically distributed, and China puts thousands of kilowatts. The large-scale development of large bases has become a reality. This has played an important role in improving the industrial level, reducing manufacturing costs, and driving the development of the industrial chain.
Another major achievement of China's wind power industry is that through project traction, it has promoted the coordinated development of equipment manufacturing, service industry and financial industry, and has driven China to become the largest wind power component manufacturing supply chain base. At present, China's wind power industry The integrity of the chain, systemic is at the world's leading level.
China Energy News: So, with history as a guide, are there any experiences and lessons that can be learned?
WISCO: I believe that in the course of China's wind power development, relevant policies have played an active role in guiding and regulating the order of the wind power market and ensuring the healthy development of the industry. For example: Concession bidding, promulgation and implementation of the Renewable Energy Law, domestically produced by wind turbines The policy of 70% rate, wind power price policy, etc.
On the whole, the rhythm of macroeconomic regulation and control policies is well grasped and promoted in an orderly manner. In the stage of industrial exploration, the price of electricity has not been raised too high, which has prevented the overheating of the industry and led to the rise of national manufacturing industry; In the 10 years after the implementation of the Law, relevant policies such as benchmarking price have promoted the rapid development of the industry; at this stage, the industry has a certain scale, and the policy orientation is to enter the period of subsidy gradual decline.
Looking back, it was the original 70% localization rate requirement, which won valuable 3-5 years for China's wind power equipment manufacturing industry, laid the foundation for wind power 'Made in China' and enhanced the industry's ability to resist risks.
Therefore, based on the long-term, we still hope that the policy will focus on continuity and stability in the adjustment process, and provide guarantee for the sustainability of the industry.
China Energy News: Looking to the future, how to deal with the relationship between renewable energy and fossil energy such as wind power?
WISCO: In the global energy transformation process, I am full of confidence in the future development of renewable energy. Wind power is the most commercially competitive renewable energy. The cost of onshore wind power in the world is already lower than that of thermal power. The cost of onshore wind power in China is close to that of thermal power. cost.
It must be emphasized that the development of renewable energy is inseparable from fossil energy. It is precisely because of the responsibility of the safe, stable and sustainable power supply of fossil energy that renewable energy can continue to develop healthily.
To give a simple example, thermal power peaking is actually the most economical compared to other types of energy storage. Therefore, while gradually reducing the use of fossil energy, it is also necessary to give reasonable compensation to the thermal power to provide auxiliary services. The price of thermal power. Only in this way can we form a natural market ecology and promote the realization of China's 'fire and fire price' goal.
In the future, wind power will become a safe and reliable, economical and clean power source that is popular among consumers.