On February 7, the Fangchenggang Offshore Wind Power Demonstration Project—Guangxi’s first offshore wind power initiative—officially reached full capacity, marking the completion and full operation of China’s first offshore wind project built entirely on rock-socketed foundations and developed without government subsidies.
Source: China News Service
On February 7, the Fangchenggang Offshore Wind Power Demonstration Project—Guangxi’s first offshore wind power initiative—officially reached full capacity, marking the completion and full operation of China’s first offshore wind project built entirely on rock-socketed foundations and developed without government subsidies.
Led by Guangxi Energy Group, a subsidiary of Guangxi Investment Group, the project comprises 83 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 8.5 megawatts, for a total installed capacity of 700 megawatts. Construction began in March 2023, and in January 2024, the first batch of turbines was connected to the grid—achieving a milestone as Guangxi’s first offshore wind power generation project. After 545 days of construction, the entire Site A phase was successfully grid-connected and put into operation.
Since the project’s launch, the construction team has overcome multiple challenges, including complex seabed geological conditions, unpredictable ocean currents, intricate logistical coordination, frequent typhoons, and short construction windows. The project set a national record for the fastest full-capacity grid connection of an offshore wind farm built on rock-socketed foundations. It also became the first offshore wind project in Guangxi to conduct offshore wind measurements, receive government approval, break ground, connect to the grid, and achieve full-capacity operation. Additionally, all key turbine components were 100% domestically manufactured.
As Guangxi’s first offshore wind power demonstration project, the Fangchenggang initiative marks the beginning of the large-scale development of a 10-gigawatt offshore wind power base and a multi-billion-yuan offshore wind industry cluster in the Beibu Gulf.