There lacks a comprehensive analysis on the large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaic projects and its impact on poverty alleviation. Here the authors show that solar photovoltaic poverty alleviation pilot policy increases per-capita disposable income in a county by approximately 7%-8%.
The use of solar panels can address the power dimension of local residents' energy poverty and lower the threshold for farmers to use clean energy, which in turn improves their household energy use patterns (Djanibekov and Gaur, 2018).
In 2014, China announced an ambitious plan to help alleviate rural poverty through deploying distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in poor areas. The solar energy for poverty alleviation programme (SEPAP) aims to add over 10 GW capacity and benefit more than 2 million households from around 35,000 villages across the country by 2020.
Photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects (PPAPs) 1. Introduction With the increasing consumption of fossil energy and changes in the ecological environment, it is of increasing significance to meeting the energy demands required for industrial and economic development with clean and efficient power generation .
The solar energy for poverty alleviation programme (SEPAP), which is positioned as an integral component of China’s political campaign to eradicate poverty by 2020, aims to add over 10 GW capacity and benefit more than 2 million households from around 35,000 villages across the country by 2020.
The research results are consistent with the following conclusions: PV poverty alleviation is related to reducing energy poverty, and the effect of reducing energy poverty is more obvious in areas with richer sunlight resources. In this regard, the hypothesis H 5 is verified. Table 9. Heterogeneity analysis of sunlight endowments.