Wind power enterprises open offshore wind energy, the need for technical and policy support

With the development of economy, many kinds of industries in China have been faced with saturated transformation, and the development of new energy sources is a new solution. However, the development of new energy resources faces many problems. Technology and policy issues bear the brunt.

"Resources are there, need to open the key to resources.". There are two keys: technology and policy." Wind power professionals describe the development of offshore wind power.

Some people say that it is an opportunity, some people say that is the direction, and the enthusiasm of enterprises is limited, largely due to the lack of the "two keys". With the high-end equipment manufacturing industry becoming the focus of China's industrial development and the increasingly rapid development of renewable energy, the future of offshore wind power will attract much attention.

The wind is big and the rain is small"

For the development of offshore wind power, "the high-end equipment manufacturing industry" 12th Five-Year "development plan" proposed to comprehensively promote the marine wind power engineering equipment as the representative of the marine renewable energy equipment. According to the plan, in the offshore wind power engineering equipment as the focus, vigorously develop the installation platform of wind sea and intertidal zone (ship), offshore wind turbine operation and maintenance of ships, offshore and intertidal wind power generation equipment, and comprehensively promote the marine renewable energy industry.

The attitude of the country is relatively clear. However, the reality of the wind power industry feeling how?

"Only a few leading enterprises are doing (offshore wind power), many enterprises are deterred."." In March 18th, information analyst Wang Xiaokun said.

The development of offshore wind power is considered to be of great significance. The general manager of development business unit of a large domestic wind power enterprises that offshore wind power is the future of new energy industry in particular is an important development direction of wind power industry. In Wang Xiaokun view, the current wind power concentrated in the "Three North" and some hills, tuyere mountain area, grid, abandoned wind and other serious problems, "if the development of offshore wind power. It is a salvation for wind power enterprises".

For China's wind power industry, the start of the first round of bidding for offshore wind power concession in 2010 is of special significance. However, compared with the original enthusiasm, the project started difficult, slow progress and other issues later has been criticized by the industry。

Jin Xiaolong, general manager of Shanghai electric Wind Energy Ltd, said that as wind turbine manufacturers, they will certainly be involved in the development of offshore wind power. However, he believes that offshore wind power will not develop very fast.

At present, China's offshore wind power is not very strong, the key is that investors are still on the sidelines. From the first batch of offshore wind power tender to now, in addition to the Shanghai Donghai Bridge offshore wind power project, the real implementation of the little marine engineering equipment, wind energy demand is not strong." Jin Xiaolong said.

He said frankly that China has formed a certain capacity in the development of offshore wind power, and has the conditions for large-scale development of offshore wind power. Such as the manufacturing of several ships offshore construction vessels, Longyuan Power in the development of offshore wind power, but these capability is very limited.

At the same time, it is understood that the terrestrial wind power part of the approval authority has been delegated, in contrast, the current approval of offshore wind power, military, maritime, ocean environment and other fields involved are very extensive, the examination and approval procedures are very complicated.

The bottleneck of "two keys"

On the one hand, policy enthusiasm for offshore wind power development, and the other side is the reality of the enterprise performance. Why some people say that is an opportunity, some people say that is the direction, and the enthusiasm of enterprises is not high, why the policy is difficult to "landing"?

The general manager of development business unit of a large domestic wind power enterprises, technology and equipment from the point of view, the current wind power companies are not very mature experience, because we all know that the risk is very large, the technical challenges are very large, so the equipment itself is still facing many problems. From the policy level, the relevant electricity prices have not been clear, enterprises are reluctant to try risk.

According to the understanding, compared with Europe, China's offshore wind power development process is relatively short. The real offshore wind turbines can be traced back to the experimental research and development of the wind and wind technology in Bohai Bay in 2007. Insiders said that China's relevant research is still a lot of non systematic aspects.

The development of offshore wind energy needed for engineering equipment, usually has two parts: one part is the fan; the other part is the implementation of the project process requires engineering equipment such as hoisting ship, ship maintenance.

According to the development of wind power enterprise business unit general manager, hoisting ship and not the core technical challenge, operation and maintenance of the ship in marine technology and engineering experience on the basis of the existing, do some application design, in order to better achieve accessibility. In contrast, the reliability of wind turbine generators required for offshore power generation faces great challenges.

The source said that the offshore wind power technology complexity and difficulty than onshore wind power, involving marine meteorology, anti-corrosion technology, special wind turbines foundation and floating control, the sea temperature, water and salt are not the same. "The development of offshore wind power generation, the technical breakthrough of the reliability of the unit and the cost of electricity are the core."

In addition, another noteworthy problem is that the cost of offshore wind power is about two times higher than that of offshore wind power tariff policy and there is no clear statement.

"Developers expect to be priced at around 0.9 yuan per level. If this can be set, the enthusiasm of developers is expected to improve." Jin Xiaolong said.

Information Analyst Wang Xiaokun believes that due to the high cost of offshore wind power, the state should introduce policy rules, such as support for technological innovation, reduce the cost of equipment, reduce the initial investment and better grid price, support the development of wind power.

The wind power industry for the development of offshore wind power, to make gradual, long-term planning, the core technology needs investment mechanism continuously, and have strict evaluation mechanism and transparent and fair market environment. This is a long-term development. Make good plans.