Green Electricity Circulation Accelerates and Upgrades: China Takes Multiple Measures to Solidify Summer Electricity Supply Confidence
June 5, 2026 16:03
Source: CCTV News Client
Reporters learned from State Grid Corporation of China today that according to estimates, the maximum electricity load in the State Grid's operating area this summer will exceed 1.3 billion kilowatts, an increase of about 6% compared to the same period last year. Recently, multiple projects in China's green electricity sector have made progress, with green electricity circulation showing an acceleration and upgrade, injecting strong confidence into electricity supply.
The "Heart of the Sea Breeze" conducts offshore installation operations
The world's largest offshore converter station, the "Heart of the Sea Breeze," has arrived at the installation area of the Yangjiang Qingzhou offshore wind farm in Guangdong and will carry out offshore float-over installation operations today.
The "Heart of the Sea Breeze" is the world's first ±500 kV/2000 MW flexible DC offshore converter station, with a footprint close to a standard football field, a height equivalent to about 15 stories, and a weight of 25,000 tons. Due to its weight far exceeding the lifting capacity of domestic vessels and machinery, it will use internationally advanced integral float-over installation technology.
After completion, the electricity generated by 163 wind turbines in the Three Gorges Yangjiang Qingzhou Phase 5 and Phase 7 offshore wind farms will be collected, stepped up, and converted from AC to DC here, then transmitted to the onshore grid via submarine cables, delivering approximately 6 billion kWh of green electricity annually.
Ningxia transmits green electricity across grid operating areas
Recently, Ningxia achieved the first transmission of green electricity to Guangdong and Fujian provinces, with a planned total transmission exceeding 200 million kWh. Northwest clean energy will continue to ensure the electricity supply for the southeastern coastal region.
It is understood that through green electricity trading, Ningxia's new energy enterprises have signed power supply contracts with users in Guangdong and Fujian. Starting from June, Ningxia will transmit 120 million kWh of green electricity to Fujian and 93 million kWh to Guangdong. Among them, the green electricity sent to Guangdong will cross two DC channels—the Shanbei-Wuhan (Shaanxi-Hubei ±800 kV UHV DC) and the Jiangcheng (Three Gorges-Guangdong ±500 kV EHV DC)—achieving the first cross-grid operating area transmission of green electricity from Ningxia.
As the country's first new energy comprehensive demonstration zone and an important sending end of the "West-to-East Power Transmission" strategy, Ningxia has cumulatively transmitted 13.2 billion kWh of new energy electricity this year as of the end of May, with new energy accounting for over 32% of total transmitted electricity. That is, one out of every three kilowatt-hours transmitted is generated from new energy. Ningxia's green electricity transmission to Fujian and Guangdong implements the national unified electricity market construction plan and explores new market-oriented paths for new energy transmission and consumption.
The Yunxiao DC channel transmission right market-based trading launches
Starting from June 1, the Yunxiao DC channel located in Yunxiao County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, connecting Fujian and Guangdong, has launched market-based trading of transmission rights. This provides a path for various market entities to participate equally in trading and use the channel efficiently.
As China's first market-based transmission rights project crossing the two major grid operating areas of State Grid and China Southern Power Grid, this marks a key step in the construction of a unified national electricity market in the field of cross-regional transmission resource market allocation. The so-called transmission right is the "pass" for transmission channels. In the electricity market, when a power generation company wants to send electricity from location A to location B, it must use transmission lines, and each line has limited transmission capacity. A transmission right is the right to use the capacity of that line.
A series of good news
highlights the comprehensive acceleration and upgrade
of China's green electricity in transmission, trading,
and other links,
providing solid electricity guarantees for economic and social development.
Thumbs up for China's power, thumbs up for energy innovation.
Editor: Yang Jian
