A wind plant in suburban Beijing is to generate 20 per cent of the power supplied to the city’s Olympic venues during this summer’s games.

The Guanting Wind Power Plant has 43 domestically developed wind power units at work, and has an installation capacity of 64,500kw.

The Wind Power Plant will not only help fulfil Beijing’s promise of a ‘green Olympics’, but it also symbolises the first-ever large-scale employment of wind power generation in the Chinese capital.

Since the first unit went into operation on January 20th, The Guanting Wind Power Plant has supplied 35 million kWh of ‘green power’ to Beijing. It is expected to supply 100 million kWh of electricity annually – enough to meet the daily demand of 100,000 households, and could cut the city’s yearly carbon dioxide emissions by 100,000 tonnes.