BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2009 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Chinese state-owned power producer the China Datang Corporation recently kicked off the construction of its fourth wind power plant in eastern China's Shandong province with capacity of 49.5 MW.
Sited at Qingdao city, the Zhuomashan wind power plant involves 500 million yuan of investment and includes 33 sets of wind power generating units, each with a capacity of 1,500 kW.
The Zhuaomashan wind power plant is expected to generate 89.54 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.
Currently, China Datang operates two wind power plants in Laizhou and Dongying with a combined capacity of 148.5 MW and has another one under construction in Wendeng with 49.5 MW of capacity in the first phase.
China Datang also plans to start the construction of its fifth wind-power plant in Shandong at Jiaonan of Qingdao, and is making efforts to acquire a 30-MW wind-power plant in Yantai.
Moreover, China Datang is conducting the preliminary work on the building of wind power plants in Jimo and Pingdi in Qingdao as well as the offshore area of Yantai.
Currently, China Datang carries out the development of wind power projects through Datang Shandong Power Generation in this area.
Shandong provincial government provides an additional 0.09 yuan of subsidy for each kilowatt of wind electricity, bringing up the on-grid price of wind electricity to 0.7 yuan/kilowatt.
