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Goldwind Demonstration Microgrid

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations4
System facts24
Sources reviewed6
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

This record is Goldwind's grid-connected smart microgrid at its global-headquarters/industrial park in Beijing Yizhuang. The most detailed 2016 participant presentation documents the demonstration as a 2.5 MW Goldwind wind turbine, 500 kWp of PV, several battery and supercapacitor technologies, 730 kW of gas microturbines, and 500 kW of diesel backup. Goldwind subsequently expanded the park: its January 2021 certification announcement reports 4.8 MW of wind and 1.3 MW of solar in 2020. The recovered 3.73 MW figure therefore describes neither the full 2016 resource portfolio nor the expanded 2020 renewable capacity.

Research status
Operating and evolved into Goldwind's zero-carbon smart-park reference site. Goldwind reported that clean energy supplied 50% of park electricity in 2020 and that the headquarters received China's first carbon-neutral smart-park certification in January 2021. Goldwind continues to market the Yizhuang park as a reference project, but no later public operating dataset was located for annual generation, storage availability, islanding events, or the present installed capacity of each storage technology.
Historical classification
CHP
Reported capacity
3,730 kW
Coordinates
39.77309, 116.55325
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Goldwind Demonstration Microgrid?

4 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS)

Conducted the ISO 14064-1:2006 greenhouse-gas verification cited in Goldwind's January 2021 carbon-neutral park announcement. [4]

Organization

Etechwin

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

Goldwind

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.

Site owner, wind-turbine supplier, microgrid developer/integrator, controls developer, and operator of the Beijing headquarters smart park. [3][4][5]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
500 [1]
KW Wind
2500 [1]
KW Gas/Diesel
130 [1]
Storage
600/400 KW/KWH [1]
Original wind generation
One 2.5 MW permanent-magnet direct-drive turbine, Goldwind model GW106/2500, on an 80 m tower in the 2016 demonstration configuration [3]
Original solar PV
500 kWp total: 490 kW polycrystalline silicon, 5 kW monocrystalline silicon, and 5 kW cadmium telluride [3]
2016 electrical storage portfolio
200 kW/800 kWh vanadium-redox flow battery; 125 kW/250 kWh lithium battery; 200 kW/10-second supercapacitor; and 100 kW/150 kWh lead-carbon battery [3]
Gas microturbines
730 kW total: two 65 kW units plus one 600 kW unit; the 600 kW unit was described as a CCHP addition under construction in the 2016 presentation [3]
Diesel reserve generation
500 kW total: one 300 kW and one 200 kW generator in the 2016 system description [3]
Expanded renewable capacity reported for 2020
4.8 MW wind and 1.3 MW solar; Goldwind did not provide a turbine/module count or explain which original assets were replaced versus supplemented [4]
2020 clean-electricity share
50% of total park electricity, according to Goldwind's certification announcement [4]
Documented load range and site area
200-2,200 kW load range and 91,271.6 m² site area in the 2016 participant presentation [3]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Wind turbine

Goldwind — GW106/2500

2.5 MW permanent-magnet direct-drive turbine used by the original Beijing demonstration. Public evidence reviewed does not identify the additional turbines behind the 4.8 MW wind total reported for 2020. [3][4]

02

Hybrid electrical storage

Model not publicly disclosed

The 2016 configuration deliberately combined vanadium-flow, lithium, lead-carbon, and supercapacitor devices across long-, medium-, and very-short-duration response. Manufacturers and commercial models are not disclosed in the reviewed material. [3][6]

03

Thermal generation and reserve

Model not publicly disclosed

Two 65 kW and one 600 kW gas microturbines were paired with 300 kW and 200 kW diesel generators. The presentation labels the gas equipment as microturbines but does not identify its manufacturer or model. [3]

04

Microgrid controls

Goldwind

Goldwind described wind/PV/load forecasting, economic dispatch, integrated monitoring, protection, dynamic/transient stability controls, and both grid-connected and isolated operation. No public commercial controller model is identified. [3][5]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Management

    Adaptable control interface able to control different generation, load and storage technologies [1]

  • Storage

    The power storage unit is composed of a 200KW Vanadium redox flow cell, a 200 lithuim cell and a 200KW super capacitor. [1]

  • Storage

    The first two storage units can last four hours each and the last for 40 seconds. [1]

  • Architecture

    The headquarters installation combines a utility interconnection, local wind and PV, dispatchable gas generation, diesel reserve, four complementary storage types, controllable loads, and park-level monitoring/dispatch. It is an industrial-campus demonstration and product-development environment, not a stand-alone village system. [3]

  • Storage roles

    The flow battery provides four-hour energy shifting; the lithium battery provides two-hour response; the lead-carbon battery provides 1.5-hour response; and the supercapacitor addresses roughly ten-second transients. The 2015 engineering study evaluates coordinated hybrid-storage control rather than treating the devices as one interchangeable battery. [3][6]

  • Capacity evolution

    The detailed 2016 asset list and Goldwind's later 2020 totals must be kept as separate phases. Adding 2.5 MW wind, 500 kW PV, and 730 kW gas yields the recovered 3.73 MW value, but that arithmetic excludes diesel and storage and was superseded by the 4.8 MW wind/1.3 MW solar expansion. [3][4]

  • Carbon-neutral claim boundary

    Goldwind says clean generation covered 50% of park electricity in 2020. The broader carbon-neutral certification also relied on purchasing China Certified Emission Reductions to offset reported greenhouse-gas emissions; it should not be interpreted as 100% on-site renewable electricity. [4]

  • Evidence gap

    No reviewed source provides audited post-2020 annual wind/PV production, fuel use, storage cycling/availability, outage performance, or a current one-line equipment inventory. Goldwind's current park page confirms the site remains a reference but is not an operating report. [4][5]

Provenance

6 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
    Goldwind Global

    goldwindglobal.com · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  3. [3]
    Goldwind Smart Microgrid and Industrial Park Smart Energy Internet

    Goldwind / 2016 Asia Microgrid Symposium · Primary source

  4. [4]
  5. [5]
  6. [6]

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