The National Energy Administration has appointed Gansu a pilot province for wind power.

Northern China wasted 33.9 billion kilowatt-hours of wind power in 2015 because of low utilization, the administration said on March 17.

The administration has asked local authorities in Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang to stop approving conventional wind power projects until they have better infrastructure to transmit and use it.