Recently, a Westwood analyst in the United Kingdom said that China's ongoing pilot projects for floating offshore wind power will drive China's floating offshore wind power to achieve "five-fold growth" by 2026. Analysts predict that as the world's largest offshore wind power country, China will increase the installed capacity of floating offshore wind power on the basis of the world's leading offshore wind power capacity, which is expected to grow to nearly 500 MW by 2026.

China has been preparing to develop floating wind power installations for years, but so far only one floating project has been connected to the grid in the country - a single-unit pilot project launched at the end of 2021 - which is also considered to be about 477MW in China's master plan. The first seed project of the floating project. The above-mentioned plan aggregates the installed capacity figures from the latest statistics from Westwood Energy, which calculates the number of installations in China by 2026.

At present, China's offshore wind power installed capacity has surpassed that of the United Kingdom, making it the largest offshore wind power market in the world. However, in the floating offshore wind power market, the planned capacity, including demonstration projects, only ranks fifth in the world, second only to the United Kingdom (25%), South Korea (20%), Spain (19%) and Italy (14%).

Ruth Chen, senior analyst for offshore wind, said: "China has made great strides in floating wind power, including increasing the number of demonstration prototypes and commercializing floating wind power projects and increasing the rated capacity of floating wind power projects. .Will China also become the floating wind leader like fixed-base offshore wind? There is no doubt that it is possible.”

"Looking at the rapid expansion of China's fixed-base offshore wind development, it's just as possible in the fast-growing floating wind sector."

Westwood predicts that 3.6GW of floating wind will be connected to the grid globally by 2026. The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) had forecast in 2021 that there would be 16.5GW of floating offshore wind capacity installed by 2030, a sharp increase from the 6.5GW expected a year ago, with most of that growth coming between 2025 and 2030. Editor / Xu Shengpeng