Baicheng area has plenty of high quality wind resource: the exploitable wind power scale is 207.6 trillion kWh, the exploitable area is more than 5000 square kilometers, the wind power capacity is 20 gigawatt (GW) and it is the most potential wind resource area. The planned wind farm is about 5000 square kilometers; the planned total capacity is over 10GW. The current capacity is over 1 GW.
In 2009, the wind power development target of Baicheng adds another 1 GW and the total planned capacity is over 2 GW, and it has already been included in the national large scale wind farm plan. To support the national plan, five 500 kV transformer substations will be constructed and four of them will be located in Baicheng area. The construction project is already in process, it will guarantee the transmission of the wind power.
Furthermore, the price of the wind power is such high as 0.61RMB/kWh.
