Wind-generated Electricity in China: Decreasing Potential, Inter-annual Variability and Association with Changing Climate.

ABSTRACT: China hosts the world's largest market for wind-generated electricity. The financial return and carbon reduction benefits from wind power are sensitive to changing wind resources. Wind data derived from an assimilated meteorological database are used here to estimate what the wind generated electricity in China would have been on an hourly basis over the period 1979 to 2015 at a geographical resolution of approximately 50 km × 50 km. The analysis indicates a secular decrease in generating potential over this interval, with the largest declines observed for western Inner Mongolia (15 ± 7%) and the northern part of Gansu (17 ± 8%), two leading wind investment areas. The decrease is associated with long-term warming in the vicinity of the Siberian High (SH), correlated also with the observed

SUBMITTER: Sherman P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5701265 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature