The PV industry in China is expected to move toward a healthy and orderly development track by improving entry threshold to curb excessive production capacity. 4.2. Specific implementations in relevant fields The latest 12th Five-Year Plan for Renewable Energy Development in China proposed a new development goal for its solar PV industry.
The major solar power technology currently available is the solar PV system, in which sunlight is directly converted into electricity via photovoltaic effect. The PV industry in China entered its period of rapid development during the 21st century because of the significant increase in global demand for PV products.
New and cumulative installed capacities of China's solar PV power from 2000 to 2017. In order to effectively coordinate the scale and speed of the solar PV installation with the economic development, China has occasionally set and adjusted the development targets for solar PV power.
Fig. 4 shows the optimal development path for China's solar PV power under the base case. The solar PV power development target for 2050 will be achieved in 2048, two years ahead of the schedule. The development trend will be maintained before 2040, but the a big vibration of the installed capacity appears after 2041.
The total potential for solar radiant energy is 1.7 × 1012 tons of standard coal equivalent per year for the country (Zhang et al., 2009a). China started generating solar photovoltaic (PV) power in the 1960s, and power generation is the dominant form of solar energy (Wang, 2010).
Solar DPG, especially BIPV in China, is accepted to have great development potential. Specifically, the total architecture area that can be utilized is more than 49 billion m 2, and if the fixed PV area of architecture has a share of 20%, the total capacity will reach 100 GW .