Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced the acceptance status of the environmental impact assessment for the "Three Gorges Qingdao Phase I 3000MW Offshore Wind Power Project". The project is planned to be constructed in the Yellow Sea, with an offshore distance of over 130 kilometers, and is expected to install 214 14mW wind turbines, with a total installed capacity of nearly 3000MW. This is not only one of the largest offshore wind power projects in China, but also the world's farthest offshore fixed bottom offshore wind farm.

The project plans to use four pile guide frame foundations, with a single unit capacity of 14MW, an impeller diameter of 270 meters, and a hub height of 152 meters, demonstrating China's leading strength in the field of large capacity and offshore wind power engineering. Compared to the UK's Hornsea wind farm, which is currently the farthest offshore wind farm in the world (120 kilometers), the Three Gorges Qingdao project has pushed the "offshore boundary" of offshore wind power to a new record.

If the scope is expanded to floating or single machine demonstration projects, China's "Haiyou Guanlan" platform has reached 136 kilometers offshore and has been put into operation; The 16MW floating wind power project of Lufeng Oilfield Group is also planned to be located 136 kilometers away from the sea, demonstrating China's synchronous advancement in various deep offshore technology routes. Keywords: Wind Power New Energy, Wind Power New Energy News, Wind Power Energy Network

Currently, the National Energy Administration has explicitly proposed to "actively promote the construction of deep-sea offshore wind power", and the industry expects that deep-sea wind power will become the main direction of offshore wind power development during the "15th Five Year Plan" period. The promotion of a number of pioneering projects such as Three Gorges Qingdao not only expands the exploitable space of offshore wind power, but also provides key support for policy formulation and technological innovation, profoundly affecting the future prospects of offshore energy in China and even the world. Editor/Xu Shengpeng