内蒙古电力部门正在“驯服”朔漠大风造福牧民,截止到1994年底,全自治区已有小型民用风力发电机10万多台,装机总容量近8000千瓦,占到全国的80％,每年可发1.2亿千瓦时的电量,全区有1/3的牧户,约50万人用上了风电。 内蒙古自治区地广人稀,交通闭塞,用电网送电既困难又不经济。全区风能资源蕴藏总功率为10.1亿千瓦,居全国之首。该区电力部门从70年代就开始普及 The Inner Mongolia Electric Power Department is “taming” the desert winds to benefit the herdsmen. By the end of 1994, the entire autonomous region had already had more than 100,000 small-scale civilian wind turbines, with a total installed capacity of nearly 8,000 kilowatts, accounting for 80% of the country’s total, and 1.2 per year. One hundred million kilowatt-hours of electricity is consumed in the district, and one third of herdsmen are households. About 500,000 people use wind power. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is sparsely populated with traffic jams. It is difficult and uneconomical to use grid transmission. The total power of wind power resources in the region is 1.01 billion kilowatts, ranking first in the country. The district’s power sector has been popular since the 1970s