From the vast Gobi of the Junggar Basin to the edge of the Taklimakan Desert, rows of huge fan blades rotate in the wind, and pieces of dark blue photovoltaic panels chase light day by day …… By the end of 2025, Xinjiang’s new energy installed capacity will exceed 0.16 billion kilowatts, accounting for 64% of the total installed power capacity.
The wind is gobi, shining Tianshan. In recent years, Xinjiang has closely followed the strategic positioning of the “National Energy and Resources Strategic Guarantee Base”, based on the needs of the country, Xinjiang’s capabilities, and the expectations of the people, focusing on ensuring national energy security and serving the overall situation of national green and low-carbon development, and making every effort to promote new energy High-quality development, accelerate the construction of national “three bases and one channel” and large-scale clean energy bases in the new era, and significantly improve energy security capabilities.
the energy map is “green”
driving on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in Ruoqiang County, Bayingoleng Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture. In the vast sand sea, pieces of dark blue photovoltaic panels spread to the sky like waves. This is a 4 million kilowatt photovoltaic project site.
“Our project is not only an energy base, but also a testing ground for the integration of ecology and technology.” The project leader Guo Xiaoyang pointed to the “Photovoltaic Sea”, which covers an area of about 76 square kilometers, and said that the project will be fully converted to commercial operation on May 29, 2025. The designed annual power generation capacity exceeds 6.9 billion kilowatt-hours, which can satisfy 2 million households. Annual electricity consumption. The construction of the project has not only led to the employment of more than 10,000 people, but also explored the ecological model of “on-board power generation and off-board restoration”, giving the Gobi Desert a new life.
the line of sight moves to the north. on the north side of lianhuo expressway salt lake service area, more than 100 “wind power giants” stand in the wind. This is the first “scenery and fire storage” multi-energy complementary clean energy base in Xinjiang-Huadian Urumqi million kilowatt scenery base in northern Xinjiang.
“since the 14th five-year plan, we have taken the initiative to serve the national strategy, focusing on the positioning of Huadian Xinjiang’s strategic clean energy base, accelerating the development of green and low carbon, and completing and putting into operation the Gobi energy base at the northern foot of Tianshan mountain in Xinjiang and the three batches of large-scale wind power photovoltaic bases in the country. the foundation for high-quality development is stronger, the background color is greener, the value is better and the kinetic energy.” Wu Di, deputy chief economist of Huadian Xinjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd., said that the company’s installed capacity in Xinjiang has reached 41.278 million kilowatts, of which clean energy accounts for nearly 60%.
In recent years, Xinjiang has adhered to overall planning, established an autonomous region energy leading group, formulated and implemented the autonomous region’s new power system construction plan, and promoted the integration and interaction of “source, network, load, storage, carbon, and number.
According to data from State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., as of the end of 2025, Xinjiang’s new energy installed capacity exceeded 0.16 billion kilowatts, and it has become Xinjiang’s largest power source and the main body of power generation increment. In 2025, Xinjiang’s new energy power generation will reach 146.7 billion kwh, an increase of 22.3 percent over the same period last year, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 0.119 billion tons.
“This data marks a fundamental change in Xinjiang’s energy structure.” Yang Guixing, head of the main network planning department of the Development Planning Department of the State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., said that with the commissioning of a number of demonstration projects such as the green smart self-healing smart microgrid in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang has basically formed a multi-energy complementary and regionally coordinated green energy supply system.
strong foundation to promote green electricity consumption
good hair, but also to send, use. In the face of the volatility problem of new energy “watching the sky and eating”, Xinjiang insists on diversified consumption, and makes two-way efforts in “internal elimination and external delivery” and “regulating energy storage.
Xinjiang has accelerated in the construction of the main artery of “Xinjiang power transmission. At present, the first and 2. three channels of UHV DC and two 750 kV inter provincial (regional) AC channels have been operated efficiently.
“Xinjiang has formed a pattern of” two exchanges and three directes’ delivery channels, with a delivery capacity of over 30 million kilowatts.” Song Xueqiang, director of the trading department of Xinjiang Electric Power Trading Center Co., Ltd., introduced that in 2025, the “Xinjiang power transmission” will exceed 141 billion kilowatt-hours, of which the proportion of new energy transmission will exceed 1/3, and green power will be continuously transmitted to 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country., To make important contributions to ensuring national energy security and promoting energy transformation.
Xinjiang is speeding up the construction of the fourth channel power supply base of “Xinjiang power transmission” and the 750 kV power transmission and transformation project of ruoqiang-huatugou in Qinghai, fully promoting the approval of the ± 800 kV ruoqiang-Sichuan-Chongqing UHV DC project, and striving to form a “three-to-four-direct” pattern in 2027.
At the same time, Xinjiang is speeding up the construction of a new power system. Huadian Xinjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd. promotes the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, promotes the construction of network-type energy storage methods such as all-vanadium liquid flow, compressed carbon dioxide and flywheel, and demonstrates the construction of two large-scale independent energy storage power stations in Urumqi and Kashgar.
Today, the “stabilizer” role of 31 energy storage power stations with a total capacity of 4.24 million kW/15.65 million kWh continues to appear. By 2025, the new energy storage capacity of Xinjiang power grid will reach 20.1504 million kW/70.5376 million kWh.
At the same time, according to Gao Bo, deputy general manager of Xinjiang Electric Power Trading Center Co., Ltd., Xinjiang has formed a medium-and long-term power market trading mechanism covering all subjects, all varieties and all cycles. The continuous improvement of the mechanism will guide more Xinjiang electric power to enter the market and better help the transformation of local resource advantages.
Industrial ecological clusters are becoming a trend
The vigorous development of Xinjiang’s new energy industry is inseparable from the “soft environment” support of institutional mechanisms and the “hard support” of technological manufacturing “.
In terms of policy supply, Xinjiang will delegate the filing authority of wind power photovoltaic projects to prefectures (prefectures and cities) in 2024 to realize “one netcom office”. In 2025, Xinjiang issued the ”Notice on Improving the Resilience of New Energy Development and Accelerating the Construction of a New Power System”, which made concerted efforts from multiple dimensions such as improving industrial policies, stabilizing market expectations, and optimizing the business environment, and proposed 21 specific policy measures in six areas. Inject new momentum into the development of the new energy industry.
Technology and equipment manufacturing is an important support for the vigorous development of the new energy industry. In the production workshop of Xinjiang dongfang wind power new energy co., ltd. located in mulei Kazakh autonomous county, large-scale machinery and equipment are running at full power and high speed. in the wind power main engine assembly area, the technical backbone is leading the team to carry out the key docking work between the generator and the transmission chain.
At present, the local new energy equipment manufacturing industry has formed an industrial chain covering more than 10 products such as wind power mainframe, blades, towers, photovoltaic modules, inverters, combiner boxes, energy storage batteries, etc. The products are not only supplied to local projects, but also exported to the whole country.
Wang Jun, member of the Standing Committee of the Mulei County Party Committee and executive deputy county magistrate, said: “During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we will continue to seek breakthroughs in equipment manufacturing, green power consumption, and direct supply and application, and build green industrial clusters. Let the boundless” scenery “be transformed into lasting kinetic energy for high-quality development, and truly realize a strong county and rich people.”
The reporter learned from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of Industry and Information Technology that Xinjiang has built a relatively complete wind power equipment manufacturing industry chain, and the output of wind turbines ranks among the top in the country; at the same time, the output of industrial silicon and polysilicon in Xinjiang ranks among the top in the country.
Song Xueqiang said that new energy has replaced Xinjiang’s economic development with a “green base” and stimulated huge “green” development momentum. It has not only effectively promoted Xinjiang’s green and low-carbon transformation and high-quality development, but also effectively helped the local people to better benefit the people’s livelihood and gather people’s hearts.
