The municipal government of China’s city of Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, has issued a new five-year plan for energy development which, among other things, kick-starts preliminary work on the potential development of two offshore wind projects with a total capacity of 43.3 GW.

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The energy development plan, the city’s fourteenth, covers the period until 2025 and has been issued to the county, district and other relevant governments that will work on its implementation from the local level.

According to the plan, the authorities responsible for the implementation will take advantage of the “unique” conditions of the area offshore Chaozhou identified for offshore wind development, as well as of the capabilities of the Chaozhou Port, to build a 10 GW “offshore wind power base” in Guangdong Province.

During the five-year period of the plan, and in accordance with national requirements and the deployment plan of the province, local governments will work to facilitate “demonstration development and construction of the Chaozhou offshore wind power project” first and then promote the large-scale development of the project.

The offshore wind projects for whose realisation this plan is meant to set the stage are located at two sites in the exclusive economic zone outside the territorial sea line in the south of the Chaozhou City, named Guangdong East Site 6 and Guangdong East Site 7.

Source: OffshoreWind