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China Longyuan Power Group Corporation Limited
001289 · SZSE · China
Runs wind farms in northern China and sells electricity to the national grid at government-set rates.
China Longyuan Power Group operates wind farms across Inner Mongolia and northern China, converting wind into electricity that enters State Grid Corporation of China's transmission network under a National Energy Administration rule that sends renewable power to customers before coal-fired power. Revenue only arrives when kilowatt-hours actually reach eastern demand centres, and the ultra-high voltage lines connecting those provinces to population centres have a fixed throughput ceiling — when coal plants are simultaneously required to run at minimum-generation floors, State Grid curtails the excess wind output and no feed-in tariff payment is triggered, regardless of how many turbines are spinning. The company's state-owned enterprise status, conferred by the State Council, places it inside the NDRC planning process that sets both the tariff rates and the dispatch-queue positions that private wind developers cannot access, which means its revenue advantages are administrative grants rather than market ones. The same NDRC that grants those advantages can reprice the tariff or reassign queue priority through a single administrative order, with no consultation required.
How does this company make money?
State Grid Corporation of China pays the company a feed-in tariff for every kilowatt-hour of wind electricity that reaches the grid, at rates set by the National Development and Reform Commission. On top of that, the company sells renewable energy certificates to industrial customers in eastern provinces who are required by the government to source a share of their energy from clean sources. Both income streams run through China's centralized electricity pricing system.
What makes this company hard to replace?
The company holds multi-year land use agreements with local governments in specific northern provinces that cannot be transferred to another developer. Its grid connection points were allocated by State Grid after years of technical review, and reassigning those points would take years more. The renewable energy certificates it sells are tied to the registrations of specific wind farms and cannot simply be duplicated elsewhere.
What limits this company?
The ultra-high voltage transmission lines that State Grid Corporation of China runs from Inner Mongolia and the northern provinces to the eastern cities have a fixed carrying limit. When those lines are full, wind output is cut off and earns nothing. That ceiling cannot be raised by building more turbines — it is set by physical cable capacity and by the rule that coal plants must keep generating a minimum amount at the same time.
What does this company depend on?
The company cannot run without State Grid Corporation of China's transmission infrastructure and dispatch protocols, which physically carry its electricity to buyers. It depends on National Development and Reform Commission feed-in tariff rates and renewable energy certificates for the prices it is paid. Its turbines come primarily from Goldwind and Envision, two Chinese manufacturers. Its wind farms sit on land whose use rights are negotiated with local governments in Inner Mongolia and the northern provinces. And every connection to the grid requires an interconnection approval from provincial energy bureaus.
Who depends on this company?
State Grid Corporation regional subsidiaries rely on this company's output to meet government-mandated renewable capacity targets — if wind generation fell, those subsidiaries would fall short. Industrial customers in eastern provinces buy renewable energy certificates from this company to meet their own government-set clean energy quotas; without those certificates, they would be in breach. Local governments in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang collect land lease payments and tax income from the wind farms; if the farms stopped operating, that income would disappear.
How does this company scale?
Adding new wind farms becomes relatively straightforward once land use rights and grid connection protocols are in place inside China's centralized approval system — the same process can be repeated across sites. What does not get easier is connecting those farms to the grid: building new ultra-high voltage transmission lines requires the National Energy Administration to coordinate across multiple provinces, and no individual wind developer can speed that up.
What external forces can significantly affect this company?
The Chinese Communist Party's target of carbon neutrality by 2060 pushes more renewable capacity through each Five-Year Plan, which generally favors this company but also brings more competitors into the system. U.S. trade restrictions on Chinese renewable energy equipment can squeeze the supply chain for turbine parts, affecting Goldwind and Envision as suppliers. Seasonal wind patterns and monsoon conditions across northern China determine how much electricity the turbines can actually generate at any given time of year.
Where is this company structurally vulnerable?
The National Development and Reform Commission can cut the feed-in tariff rate or move this company down the dispatch queue with a single administrative order — no vote, no market process, no advance notice required. Because both the price it receives and its priority on the grid are grants from the NDRC, either one can be taken away the same way they were given.
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