Wind energy developments and policies in China: A short review

Wind energy is the most prominent energy source among all the renewables. However, this technology was not covered in the worldwide before the last three decades. Currently, this energy has been most popularized in the worldwide and some of the countries are started their projections on this sector. The countries like China, USA, Germany, India and Spain have leaded by the installation capacities of wind energy in the global markets. During the last decade, China shared the highest wind energy capacities in the world. Chinese government has been providing the attractive policies for the local wind energy manufacturing companies with the developers. Also, from the last 2-3 years' scenario, it has been observed that the Chinese government has also emphasised the policies especially for the outside wind energy manufacturing companies. This paper presents a compressive overview on current developments of wind energy, potentials, contributions of wind manufacturers and developers, wind energy curtailments, mismatching between the generating power and installed capacities, investments, policies and its impacts and future prospectus of wind energy developments in China.