Newshot "Windmill Forest" on Shifting Dunes: China's First Wind Power Project in the Heart of a Desert Is Connected to the Grid
IT之家 November 15 news: Power Construction Corporation of China said in a post today that the first batch of units of the 300 MW 蒙能阿电入乌 wind power project — the country's first wind power project in the heart of a desert, built by Power Construction Corporation of China as general contractor — has recently been connected to the grid, providing a replicable practical example for building large "sand-gobi-desert" bases under extreme environmental conditions.
IT之家 has learned that the 300 MW 蒙能阿电入乌 wind power project is located in the heart of the Ulan Buh Desert in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with a total installed capacity of 300 MW, including 30 wind turbine generators of 10 MW each, 39 km of overhead collector lines, and 2 220 kV booster stations. The first batch of units connected to the grid this time totals 16, with an installed capacity of 160 MW.
The project is the wind power portion of the 2,000 MW "阿电入乌" regional mutual-aid new energy project. The overall project also includes 1,700 MW of photovoltaic power and is equipped with 300 MW / 600 MWh of energy storage facilities. Once fully built, it will deliver 4.18 billion kWh of clean electricity to the Wuhai area every year.
According to official statements, as the country's first wind power project implemented in the heart of a desert, the heavy-cargo transport corridor is repeatedly buried by shifting sand, loose sand layers cause insufficient bearing capacity for wind turbine foundations, and under flowing terrain the precise alignment of hundred-ton-class equipment transport and hoisting is highly difficult... each of these is a severe test.
According to the introduction, the PowerChina project team formulated dedicated plans item by item for foundation construction on shifting dunes, heavy-cargo logistics organization, and control of hoisting windows, overcoming a series of difficulties in wind turbine foundation construction and precise installation in a shifting-sand environment. It innovated construction techniques for deep fine-sand-layer concrete cast-in-place piles, wind-break and sand-fix measures for overhead collector lines, and heavy-cargo transport under shifting-sand conditions, forming replicable construction and management experience for wind power projects in the heart of deserts, strongly supporting the extension of the national "sand-gobi-desert" large wind and photovoltaic base construction deeper into the desert.
At present, this green power corridor from Alxa to Wuhai is driving the conversion of the desert's wind and solar resources into stable clean electricity, opening a new path for cross-league energy coordination and photovoltaic sand control. After the project reaches full capacity, annual power generation will be about 690 million kWh, which can save about 227,000 tons of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 590,000 tons. It will further optimize the power grid layout in the Western Inner Mongolia region, help Alxa League achieve coordinated gains in green power export and desertification control, and continuously inject strong green momentum into the green and low-carbon transformation of the western region and the establishment of the country's new energy system.
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