Kai Schlegelmilch from German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU), delivers a speech introducing the German clean energy industry at Wind Power Asia 2010 Conference on Wednesday in Beijing. [CnDG by Jiao Meng]

Although China ranks No.1 in wind power capacity in the world, it still faces bottlenecks in grid integration, new technology research and development, lack of talents, etc., said a German expert at Wind Power Asia 2010 Conference Wednesday.

"In China about 20 percent of the time when wind flowing, the turbines don’t turn, because they are not well maintained," said Kai Schlegelmilch, from German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). "The figure in Germany is about 2-3 percent" added Schlegelmilch.

He explained that electricity generated by wind power accounts for over 10.1 percent of German energy consumption right now and the future of this industry is promising.

To help China to boost wind power research, the BMU set up Wind Environment Research & Training Center (WERT-Center) in China in September 2008. The project set up a test wind turbine and grid compatibility testing units which it uses to support large-scale wind power training and research.

"In the future, we will establish a training program, including a mixture of online courses, practical training and classroom lectures," he promised.

(China Development Gateway by Jiao Meng June 25, 2010)