Nicholas Ning/ Shanghai Daily news

The city plans to build up to three wind turbines in silt and offshore areas in the next five years, Shanghai Daily reported.

The turbines, with a capacity of 100,000 kilowatts each, would help meet growing energy demand and reduce reliance on fossil fuels, a major source of pollution.A preliminary study on a large wind farm at sea, with a potential capacity 10 times that of a land-based turbine, will also begin, according to a draft version of the city's wind-power development plan until 2010.