The Role of Wind Power in Mitigating Climate Change in China

Climate change has become one of the most serious challenges our human being has to face, and this issue is extremely urgent in China due to the large population and fast industrialization. Renewable energy can provide a major solution to mitigate global warming, and wind power can occupy an important position in the future power matrix due to wind resource distribution, wind power industry development and support from the Chinese government. In this paper, the factors from the mentioned aspects were discussed in details, and influence of wind resource to the plant locating was given. Also trends in the wind power industry were introduced.