The measures came as a way to promote the healthier development of China's fast-developing PV industry, which has already made new breakthroughs in the past year, setting records in annual new installations, new distributed PV installations, total solar power installations and PV exports, said the China Photovoltaic Industry Association.
With the largest installed solar PV capacity worldwide since 2015 and a dominant position in PV product manufacturing and export, the industry continues to expand. Even in the pursuit of carbon neutrality, China's potential for PV growth remains significant.
Over recent decades, China has risen to a preeminent global position in both solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption and production, a feat underpinned by a suite of pivotal policy measures. With a burgeoning demand for PV systems on the horizon, there is an urgent need to reassess past policies and chart new directions.
China's PV industry has established a preliminary policy system. Industrial policy is lagged compared with the market development. Reducing carbon footprint of PV products is critical for policy design.
China's rapidly growing PV industry greatly benefited from the domestic supportive polices. Hence, maintaining stable policy framework and expectations is pivotal for market development . This paper delves into the evolution of solar PV policies in China over the past two decades.
According to the administration, rural areas in China that have the potential to install PV panels on roofs cover approximately 27.3 billion square meters, and there's huge potential for further development. Although distributed PV slightly surpassed centralized large-area PV in capacity, the latter's growth was faster, the CPIA said.