Investments in China's new wind projects stopped as wasted energy increases

Many wind farms are still unconnected to grids resulting to wasted power.

Reuters reported that China will halt investment for new wind power projects in eight provinces and regions because of increasing cases of wasted wind energy due to capacity excesses, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Wednesday.

Many wind farms in China's western regions are not connected to major transmission grids, effectively wasting the electricity generated through those projects.

Because of the wastage, the NEA said it will stop issuing new power generation licenses to wind companies in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in northwestern China along with Heilongjiang and Jilin in the northeast.

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