context: These management measures and 2018 energy work priorities encouraging the development of distributed wind power might signal a rapid scale-up of distributed wind power in 2018, mirroring that of distributed solar in 2017.
National Energy Administration (NEA) released 'Interim management measures on developing distributed wind power' 16 April stipulating that
- distributed wind power refers to power produced by distributed wind turbines that is either directly consumed by power generators or contributed to the grid
- local energy regulators will simplify process for approving new distributed wind power projects
- distributed wind power projects are prohibited from occupying basic farmland
- distributed wind power projects will receive government subsidies and be paid based on the local on-shore benchmark price of wind power and
- local governments are encouraged to pilot trading of distributed wind power