L R AS Published on Friday 30 August 2019 - n° 287 - Categories:China
11.4 GW installed in China in the first half of the year; 38 to 42 GW in 2019 ?
China reports that only 11.4 GW were installed in the first half of the year. This is less than half the 24.3 GW installed in early 2018. Public utility projects
generated 6.82 GW of new capacity. The remainder came from distributed facilities. This decrease is due to the change in policy decided on May 31, 2018, which interrupted the installations. The government auctioned 22 GW before the holidays. The AECEA estimates that this year's installations will be between 38 and 42 GW in China.
PV Tech of August 24th
Editor's note The important thing is not in these statistics, but in the possibility for developers to create solar installations without government approval because of the grid parity that is gradually taking place in China. If there will be few installations in 2019, there will be many more in 2020.
