China's wind power expected to grow 64% in 2009

clipped from www.worldofrenewables.com China's installed wind power capacity is expected to reach 20 million kilowatts in 2009, increasing 64% from 2008, according to the organizers of the 3rd China (Shanghai) International Wind Energy Exhibition and Symposium 2009, which opened at Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC) yesterday. More than 200 enterprises came to join the exhibition, bringing products covering the whole wind power industry chain. The statistics show that installed wind power capacity increased 105% last year. Wind power has become China's third largest electricity source, following thermal and hydro power. Last March, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published the Eleventh Five Year Pan for renewable energy, which aims to increase the installed wind power capacity to 10 million kilowatts in the country by 2010. China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said it will provide a subsidy of RMB 600 per kilowatt to the first fifty MW-class wind turbines of qualified enterprises.