Offshore Wind Power and Resource Adequacy in the China Southern Grid
Power Transformation Lab (mrdavidson AT ucsd.edu)
China’s power grid is facing several challenges to reliability. While demand continues to grow, new resources are coming online, which change previous patterns. China’s Southern Grid has a particularly unique situation, given its largest consuming province, Guangdong, is reliant on imported hydropower, which can face transmission constraints as well as low rainfall. Offshore wind has the potential to address some of these challenges, particularly during system stress periods of coincident high d