BEIJING, Jan 18 (Reuters) - China’s manufacturing hub Jiangsu province gave green lights to 24 offshore wind power projects with total capacity of 6.7 gigawatts (GW), the provincial government-backed Xinhua Daily reported on Friday. That came as part of Jiangsu’s ambitious plan to launch 10 GW-level offshore wind power plants, known as “Three Gorges on Sea” project, alongside its coastal regions to boost clean energy consumption. The 24 newly approved projects, with total investment reaching 122.29 billion yuan ($18.05 billion), will be developed by China’s top power generators, including China Energy Group, China General Nuclear Power Corp IPO-CGNP.HK, China Huaneng Group and State Power Investment Corp. Jiangsu had 56 wind farms under operation by 2018, with online capacity reaching over 8.6 GW. China aims to build seven large-scale wind power generation base in Jiangsu, Hebei, Jilin, Gansu, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, topping the country’s total wind power capacity to more than 100 GW by 2020. $1 = 6.7756 Chinese yuan renminbi Reporting by Muyu Xu and Dominique Patton; Editing by Rashmi Aich
China Energy Group , China General Nuclear Power , China Huaneng Group and State Wind Corporation have been granted approval by Jiangsu province to construct 24 offshore wind power projects . The CNY122.29bn ( $ 18.05bn ) schemes have a total capacity of 6.7 GW and are part of Jiangsu 's Three Gorges on Sea scheme to construct 10 GW - level offshore wind power plants . In 2018 , the region had more than 8.6 GW of generating capacity from 56 wind farms , while China expects to generate 100 GW by 2020 from wind plants in Gansu , Hebei , ji Mongolia , Shanghai , Jilin and elsewhere .