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Solar-Tech Gets Explosive Growth in China

From being the highest energy consumer to highest producer last year, China also tops the

chart for fastest solar growth. Among the developing countries, only china could achieve 0%

electricity-deprived population. This is indeed a big success after outweighing its huge

population. China lead the solar market in 2013, expanding her 3gigawatts (GW) of 2012 to

12GW. With this, the global solar market looks up from two continuous years of downturn.

Until 2012, Europe has led the photovoltaic market which is now in the hands of China, Japan

and the US. Entertaining from low panel price and government subsidies, these three also cover

more rooftop installations than ground mount. However, Chinese solar farms are determined

to produce more ground mount production as issues like grid accessibility; government policy

and funding are resolved. Many of these panels are produced in China and find its home market

installations to break record capacity last year. Japan goes for 10.5 while the US targets 5.3.

Solar stock prices in China leaps up in 2013 with some going as high as 70%. Some shares triple

as the Chinese solar industry booms with in-home and out-bound sales.

National Energy Administration of China targets for 14GW of which 8 is to serve distributed

generation while the other 6 will do the utility scale. China may face challenges with their new

distributed generation scheme and pushy utility scale. However, policy makers anticipate

catching up. The government has allocations for each province, which they say, is flexible to the

amount of power their grid can absorb. “PV is becoming ever cheaper and simpler to install”,

says Jenny Chase, a solar analyst, “and China’s government has been as surprised as European

governments by how quickly it can be deployed in response to incentives.”

With china’s solar boom, the world adds approximately 21% renewable installations. This is

close to 2012’s 20% new add-ons but a huge leap considering 2011’s 4.4%. Ash Sharma,

another solar researcher says, “After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar

industry is on the rebound”. Japan pushes up 150% growth in PV installations in 2013 and

anticipates another 5GW in 2014. Issues like feed-in tariffs and carbon tax slow solar growth in

promising countries like India and Australia. Europe seems to have descended in new

installations lately.

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World Wildlife Fund reports that China holds the capability to switch to 80% generation

(projected in 2050) out of renewable sources rather than depending on fossil fuels (as is the

current trend now). This will cut 90% carbon emission from China. Now that china tops the

energy-consuming chart, China’s going green matters. The world expects a lot from China as

said by Lunyan Lu, WWF’s China Climate and Energy Program Director, “By fully embracing

energy conservation, efficiency and renewable, China has the potential to demonstrate to the

world that economic growth is possible while sharply reducing the emissions that drive

unhealthy air pollution and climate change”.

The international community waits to see the leading countries to produce the energy they

need in a healthy and sustainable manner.

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