China’s wind power capacity to hit 120GW by end of year

China’s wind power capacity is to hit 120 gigawatts by the end of 2015, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA) on Friday.

Deputy director of the NEA’s new and renewable energy department, Zhu Ming, has said that wind power capacity has reached 105 gigawatts by the end of June this year.

Wind power generation has become an important part of the country’s electricity supply. Ming stressed, however, that the sector needs more subsidies, better technology and management.

By the end of 2020, China aims to increase non-fossil energy to 15 per cent of total energy consumption, and to sharply enhance the ratio of renewable energy in production.