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Lots of wind power wasted: energy administration

Xinhua, March 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

The National Energy Administration has asked local authorities in Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang to stop approving conventional wind power projects until they have better infrastructure to transmit and use the power.

In north, northeast and northwest of China, a total of 33.9 billion kilowatt-hours of wind power was wasted in 2015 because of low utilization efficiency, the administration said on Thursday.

The administration appointed Gansu as a pilot province to explore ways to use wind power more efficiently. Endi