Inner Mongolia is the Chinese province with the greatest installed capacity of wind power plants. As of May 2022, cumulative wind power capacity amounted to just over 36 gigawatts. This was roughly 14 gigawatts more than the capacity in Xinjiang, which ranked second.
Capacity of operational wind power farms in China as of May 2022, by province/municipality
(in megawatts)
Characteristic
Capacity in megawatts
Inner Mongolia
36,034
Xinjiang
22,416
Hebei
20,808
Shandong
17,498
Jiangsu
17,001
Shanxi
16,308
Gansu
14,860
Ningxia
11,891
Henan
11,328
Liaoning
9,861
Guangdong
8,159
Yunnan
7,626
Heilongjiang
7,479
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