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Wintop has been approved for the construction of a wind power project in Inner Mongolia.

Time：2025-06-19 Views：401

　　Wind power refers to a renewable energy utilization method that uses wind energy to drive wind turbines for electricity generation. With the continuous increase in global energy consumption and the rising prominence of environmental pollution issues, renewable energy has gradually become an important alternative to fossil fuels. As a type of renewable energy, wind power has advantages such as cleanliness, renewability, and low cost, and thus has been widely applied and developed worldwide.

　　According to data released by the National Energy Administration, by the end of September 2023, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power across the country has exceeded 400 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 15%, of which onshore wind power accounts for 368 million kilowatts and offshore wind power 31.89 million kilowatts. In the first three quarters of 2023, the national wind power generation reached 630.5 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 16%. The average utilization rate of wind power nationwide is 97.1%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points compared to the previous year. Promoting the clean and low-carbon transition of energy is crucial, particularly by accelerating the development of non-fossil energy, especially new energy sources like wind and solar power. About 95% of our non-fossil energy is primarily utilized through conversion into electrical energy.

Project Introduction

　　The 50-megawatt wind power project of Inner Mongolia Northern Longyuan Shadage is located in Shadage Sumu, Biketiga Village, with a total investment of 400 million yuan and covering an area of 30 acres. The project mainly includes the construction of 25 wind turbines with a single unit capacity of 2,000 kilowatts and one 35 kV booster station. This project can generate 110 million kWh annually, with annual sales revenue of 56 million yuan. Compared to a thermal power plant of the same scale, the project can save 30,200 tons of standard coal per year, reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 338.4 tons, nitrogen oxide emissions by 349.5 tons, carbon monoxide emissions by 8 tons, reduce smoke dust by 40 tons, and decrease ash emissions by 8,000 tons. The completion of this project will fill the gap in wind power generation in the local area and will play an important role in alleviating regional power grid consumption issues and improving environmental quality.

Project Challenges

　　Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the largest province in China for installed new energy capacity. With abundant wind and solar resources, it possesses immense development potential and has long been a battleground for new energy development companies. However, the geographical location of wind farms tends to be dispersed and remote, with projects primarily concentrated in desert, Gobi, and wasteland areas where the environment and climate are complex and variable. There are significant uncontrollable factors, making management and safety prevention of power stations—a key component of the power network—challenging. Wind turbines are often located in remote areas, and abnormal temperatures are one of the major indicators of defects in electrical equipment such as transformers, lightning arresters, capacitors, and circuit breakers. Project sites are frequently staffed by few or no personnel, leading to low efficiency in manual inspections, a wide range of inspection points, and a lack of real-time, continuous data. Additionally, high-voltage equipment carries certain risks.

Project Requirements

　　To facilitate inspections and enhance operational science and technology, there is a significant need to achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase through precise smart operations and maintenance. This includes ensuring high availability of equipment, improving wind power operations efficiency, and reducing maintenance costs, ultimately achieving unmanned operation and remote management of the power station. To truly implement unmanned operation, necessary safety guarantees need to be provided for the power station itself, monitoring various objects such as environmental conditions, critical equipment, and key locations to genuinely achieve unmanned status. Each turbine generates 2 MW; with 25 turbines on-site, timely and comprehensive monitoring of the local environment is essential.

Wintop Solutions

　　Based on the working environment and construction methods of wind farms, the cost of on-site inspections and maintenance is high. Unforeseen faults often cannot be addressed in a timely manner, which necessitates a remote operational auxiliary monitoring system to achieve protection for the facilities of the wind farm, monitor equipment operations, provide remote support for maintenance operations, and issue operational warnings. This would reduce the number of routine inspections and elevate regular maintenance to predictive maintenance, improving the utilization rate, availability, and unit labor productivity of the power generation equipment.

　　The operational auxiliary monitoring solution for Wintop's 50MW wind farm in Inner Mongolia Northern Longyuan Shadage consists of forming a 4-way WT-Ring network with the 25 turbines on-site. Each turbine is equipped with an RS6310-2GF8GT managed switch, and the four ring networks connect to a central monitoring CM6124-12GF12GT managed switch, transmitting front-end video environmental monitoring and turbine vibration monitoring data to the monitoring center.

Application Product Features:

　　By introducing Wintop's industrial switch solution into the Inner Mongolia Shadage 50MW wind project, rational network architecture design, redundancy design, and security measures effectively enhance the stability, reliability, and safety of data transmission in substations, providing strong support for the daily operational management of the wind farm. At the same time, this project has reduced maintenance costs and safety risks, achieving significant results and providing valuable references for the implementation of other similar projects.

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Wintop has been approved for the construction of a wind power project in Inner Mongolia.

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Wintop has been approved for the construction of a wind power project in Inner Mongolia.

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