[5] After 4 years of delays, the latest phase of construction was completed, bringing total generation capacity up to 10GW.

This permitted the production of 1 GWh more per day than previously, and greatly improves the system's stability.

[13][14] With local-government favoritism toward coal and inadequate long-distance transmission capacity, Gansu "now has some of the highest rates of underutilization in the wind sector in China".

National Energy Administration statistics showed 39 percent of wind capacity in 2015 in Jiuquan was wasted.

The two main reasons why this is happening is that Gansu is located far from the major Chinese cities and that there is a lack of demand for wind energy in China.

However, this location is about a thousand miles from China's high density port cities that would serve as the biggest consumer of this energy.