10 provinces account for 90% of installed solar capacity
September 27, 2012 Category Alternative energy, Environment
In terms of solar power installed capacity, China’s top 10 solar power producers are: Qinghai, Gansu, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei and Shaanxi provinces, and the Ningxia Hui, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang Uygur and Tibet autonomous regions. Those provinces and regions account for almost 90% of the country’s output. Seven of those provinces and regions are in western China. Golmud in Qinghai province, has been labeled the Photovoltaic Capital of China due to a series of large projects. The province vowed to approve 1 GW of solar farms this year — one-third of the country’s newly added capacity. Solar power rationing has happened twice over the past year in Golmud, partly because the local grid was unable to absorb the solar-generated power, causing millions of yuan in losses for local solar farm developers. In 2011, China’s connected solar capacity was 2.12 GW, or nearly 70% of the installed capacity, according to the China Electricity Council. “The grid infrastructure in the western regions is not adequate to support solar connections,” said Zhang Qian at Canadian Solar. “More transmission lines need to be built.”
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