In most parts of the world there is probably not enough wind power capacity, but in northwestern China there is too much, it seems. As a result, one city in the Shaanxi province has decided to choose which new wind projects will go ahead through a lottery , signaling the local grid cannot take in all the available and planned wind power supply. Reuters reports that last year, wind power capacity connected to the grid in China hit 163.7 GW, representing almost a tenth of the country’s total generating capacity and up by 10.1 percent from 2016. Grid expansion, however, has in the meantime lagged behind, which is now creating constraints for the new wind farms. The city of Yanan has been allowed to construct 900 MW of new wind power capacity, but it has on its hands 1,300 MW worth of capacity that has been classified as eligible […]