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Strategic Study of CAE >> 2018, Volume 20, Issue 3 doi: 10.15302/J-SSCAE-2018.03.006

Research Suggestions for Ecological and Climatic Environmental Effects of Wind Power Development in China

1. National Climate Center, Beijing 100081, China;

2. State Key Laboratory of Operation and Control of Renewable Energy & Storage Systems (China Electric Power Research Institute), Beijing 100192, China;

3. State Grid Corporation of China, Beijing 100031, China

Funding project:CAE Advisory Project “Strategic Research on the Technological Trend and System of the Energy Technology Revolution in China” (2015-ZD-09) Received: 2018-05-15 Revised: 2018-05-25 Available online: 2018-09-04 15:35:54.000

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Abstract

Until 2017, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in China had ranked first in the world for continuous 8 years. In the futher, China’s wind power will still maintain a high growth rate. Under such circumstances, it is urgent for us to get a clear understanding of the impacts of wind power development on ecological and climatic environment so as to ensure the sustainable development of wind power. It is very necessary to set up a national major research program on basic sciences to conduct researches on ecological and climatic effects of wind power development. It is suggested that a development planning and distribution of wind power in China in 2050 should be proposed through observation experiments, mechanism analysis, numerical simulation, effect assessment, and adaptation and mitigation measure study; an assessment method and an indicator system of impacts of wind power development on the ecological and climatic environment should be studied and established; an ecological and climatic environment monitoring network should be built in national wind power development regions and effectively connected with all wind farms of China, so as to regularly evaluate overall and local effects of ecological and climatic environment by using big data and artificial intelligence technology.

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