L R AS Published on Sunday 15 December 2019 - n° 302 - Categories:China
30 GW in 2019, 40 GW in 2020 in China
After 17.5 GW installed in China at the end of October, the official body CPIA estimates that the installations will not exceed 30 GW in 2019.
The CPIA wanted to reassure the representatives of the Chinese industry
about the lack of PV decisions in 2019. He stated that this would not happen again in 2020. He may also have fuelled fears about the removal of government subsidies for large power plants, according to information published by Reuters (???). The CPIA, on the other hand, estimated that the facilities in 2020 should be only 40 GW. This level below the 53 GW installed in 2017 would be explained by a shortage of capital, problems of connection to the ground and political elements (abolition of quotas in certain provinces for parity projects, etc.). of network parity projects; an auction scheme to determine the tariffs paid for subsidised capacity that was introduced so late in the year that projects were delayed. In addition, further delays occurred when local authorities were slow to act on Beijing's instructions to make land available for solar power.
The late payment of solar tariffs, while the government is struggling with a huge deficit of PV subsidies, has caused financial difficulties for private developers. The CPIA has estimated that the problems are coming to an end, allowing installations to resume in the first half of 2020.
PV Magazine of 13 December
Editor's note From the outside, it seems that the management of Chinese photovoltaics is chaotic. This translates into a wait-and-see attitude on the part of developers and relatively small installations of solar power plants. At the same time, these low installations are in line with the central government's desire to curb the exuberant installations that had appeared in 2017, and to regroup manufacturers into a few large units, which is currently underway.
