The “wind power + energy storage” model is the most mature approach to synergistic development. Energy storage systems can store excess electricity when wind power generation is high and release stored power when wind output is insufficient, thereby smoothing out fluctuations in wind power generation and enhancing its controllability. According to requirements from the National Energy Administration, newly built wind farms must be equipped with a certain proportion of energy storage facilities, typically no less than 10%. In a wind-storage integrated project in Qinghai, 100 megawatts of wind power is paired with 20 megawatts of energy storage, reducing the grid-connected wind power’s fluctuation rate from 20% to 5%, significantly boosting its ability to absorb and integrate wind power.
“Wind power plus hydrogen production” has opened up a new pathway for wind power consumption. As a clean secondary energy source, hydrogen can be produced using wind power, enabling cross-seasonal and cross-regional storage and transportation of energy. In a wind-to-hydrogen project in Inner Mongolia, the wind farm generates 500 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, of which 10% is used for hydrogen production, yielding over 1,000 tons of hydrogen per year. This hydrogen not only serves local industrial production but is also supplied via hydrogen refueling stations to fuel new-energy vehicles, thus realizing diversified utilization of wind power.

The synergistic development of wind power and the industrial sector has enhanced energy utilization efficiency. Wind power is deeply integrated with energy-intensive industries such as steel, chemical, and building materials, providing these sectors with clean electricity while leveraging industrial waste heat to improve the efficiency of wind-to-hydrogen and energy-storage systems. In a steel industrial park in Jiangsu Province, wind power supplies stable electricity for steel production, and the industrial waste heat from the steel plant is used to heat wind-to-hydrogen equipment, boosting hydrogen production efficiency by 15% and achieving cascaded energy utilization.

Regional coordinated development has promoted the optimal allocation of wind power resources. By building inter-regional transmission channels, abundant wind power resources from the “Three North” region can be transmitted to load centers in central and eastern China, thereby achieving nationwide optimization of wind power resource allocation. Meanwhile, wind farms within a given region, through joint dispatching, have enhanced their overall operational stability. After the commissioning of the joint dispatching platform for wind farms in the North China region, the regional wind curtailment rate dropped by 4 percentage points, and the utilization rate of inter-regional transmission channels rose to 90%.

Policy support provides a solid foundation for the coordinated development of wind power. The National Energy Administration has introduced a series of policies to encourage the development of integrated projects such as “wind-solar-storage” and “wind-solar-hydrogen,” offering financial support and preferential policies to projects that promote coordinated development. Local governments have also stepped up efforts to plan and build comprehensive energy bases, driving the integration of wind power with other industries.

As the collaborative development model continues to mature, wind power will play an increasingly important role in China’s energy system. In the future, wind power will forge closer synergies with photovoltaics, energy storage, hydrogen energy, and other technologies, thereby building a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy ecosystem that provides solid support for achieving the “dual carbon” goals and transforming the energy structure.