Bids likely for offshore wind power projects

SHANGHAI - China will invite public bidding for more offshore wind power projects in the next five years to reach an installed offshore wind-power capacity of 5 gigawatts by 2015, senior officials said on Monday.

China's offshore wind-power capacity may reach 5gW in 2015 and 30gW by 2020, Wang Minhao, vice-president of the Hydropower Planning Research Institute, said at an industry conference in Shanghai, citing local governments' preliminary development plans.

The institute, affiliated to the Ministry of Water Resources, is responsible for the planning and design of China's hydropower and wind power projects.