DgcityBeijing Energy Group has secured four gigawatts of new wind and solar construction quotas in Jilin Province, part of a major plan to pipe clean electricity from the windy plains of the northeast all the way to the capital.
Jilin’s energy administration assigned the quotas as supporting projects for the Northeast Songliao Clean Energy Base, a transmission scheme designed to send power from the region to northern China. The four million kilowatts of capacity will be built around the city of Baicheng in western Jilin, one of the windiest corners of the country.
The wider base plan calls for 3.5 gigawatts of wind and 650,000 kilowatts of solar in Baicheng, plus a one-gigawatt solar project in Songyuan, creating a wind-solar mix rather than depending on a single source. Developers must build grid connections, supporting storage and other facilities alongside the generating capacity.
The project illustrates the logic of China’s clean-power geography. Northeast China has abundant wind and land but slower growth in electricity demand, while Beijing and surrounding provinces want greener power to replace coal-fired heating and meet climate targets. Long-distance ultra-high-voltage lines are meant to connect the two.
For Jilin, the investments carry an industrial purpose as well. The province’s old heavy-industry economy has been looking for new growth drivers, and manufacturing, installing and maintaining renewable fleets offers jobs and tax revenue in cities that once relied on state-owned factories and agriculture.
The quotas also fit a bigger northern plan to develop the so-called Three North regions, where China intends to add roughly 370 gigawatts of new solar and wind capacity by 2030. A decade ago, the northeast was notorious for switching off idle wind turbines because local grids could not absorb winter output. The new transmission corridor, mandatory storage and a clearer buyer in Beijing are designed to keep that history from repeating itself.
Baicheng has spent years branding itself a wind-power capital, hosting turbine factories and test sites as well as the towers themselves. City planners see the transmission quota as the missing piece that turns local wind resources into contracted revenue, since without a guaranteed buyer and a dedicated line even cheap turbines can sit underused.
For Beijing, the timing matters too. Winter demand peaks as temperatures fall and heating systems switch on, making firm, well-connected clean power from outside the municipality an increasingly important part of the capital’s energy mix.
