(Yicai Global) June 29 -- China’s first 1,000-megawatt land-based wind farm, built in a hilly area of of the country’s northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was connected to the power grid today, according to the builder’s parent company.

CGN New Energy Holdings, a unit of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corporation, developed and constructed the facility, Shenzhen-based CGNPC told Yicai Global.

Spanning four pastures, the farm is the first phase of a 3,000 MW wind energy project in Xing'an League in Inner Mongolia that will feed power to other provinces, including Shandong in eastern China, through an extra-high voltage transmission network.

The project’s first phase should generate 3,058 full-load hours a year. The annual tally should top 3 billion kWh of electricity delivered to the grid, equal to a reduction of over 920,000 tons of coal and consequently resulting in a cut of nearly 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Xing'an League, which is close to Heilongjiang province, has good winds and sunshine and is expected to provide nearly 11.3 million kW of green energy by 2025, making up more than four-fifths of the region's total capacity.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Emmi Laine, Xiao Yi