Thus, the northwestern part of China offer a favorable venue for constructing large-scale solar PV power stations; while the east and south China, where the country’s economy is the most prosperous and the demand for power is greatest, are more suitable for the distributed solar PV.
A shortage of glass is causing production issues for new solar panels in China, which manufactures over 70 percent of the world’s solar panels.
Meanwhile, PV power has gradually raised huge concerns in China. According to statistics 7, the installed capacity of PV power in China was only 100 MW in 2007, but grew rapidly to 205,000 MW in 2019, with an average growth of 17,075 MW per year.
We suggest that stakeholders in the solar energy industry should take urgent actions, including recycling technology innovations, effective collection systems and incentive measures, to address the growing challenge of waste PV panels in China. 1.
According to our dataset, China has a total of 2467.7 km 2 ground-mounted PV power stations in 2020. The top three largest provinces refer to Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai, whose PV area ratio are 14.92%, 12.49% and 11.26%, respectively, with a total of nearly 40% of all the PV power stations of China.
As the largest PV market in the world, China accounted for about 33% of the global solar PV market in 2017 . To achieve carbon neutrality, China’s installed PV capacities are projected to reach 400 GW and 1500 GW in 2030 and 2060, respectively, covering approximately 25% of its primary energy .