CHN Energy Xizang Branch’s Nagqu Wind Power Project Completed Foundation Concrete Pouring for First Wind Turbine
Lately, the Xizang (Chinese name for “Tibet”) branch of CHN Energy completed the foundation concrete pouring for the first wind turbine of its Oumatingga 100MW wind power in Seni District, Nagqu, marking the beginning of the construction of the main part of the project.
Workers perform heat insulation for the wind turbine foundation the same night after it completed concrete pouring.
The project is located in Nagqu Town, Seni District of Nagqu City, Xizang Autonomous Region, with an average altitude of 4,650 meters. It is the largest approved wind power project in Xizang as well as the largest of its kind at more than 4,500 meters above sea level around the world.
Since mid-April, the area was hit by a severe snowstorm that lasted for nearly 20 days, posing great challenges on the construction of the project. Leveraging its counterparts’ experience in project construction under extreme cold conditions on the plateau, the company adjusted and optimized its construction plan in a timely manner, and overcome a series of unfavorable factors such as coldness, lack of oxygen, and difficulties in earthwork on frozen soil as well as cut-and-fill material and machinery transportation, eventually completing the foundation concrete pouring for its first wind turbine.