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Distributed PV: primed, but not yet ready to shine

China: On January 2014, the National Energy Administration announced a target of 8 GW of distributed solar PV and 6 GW of utility-scale PV for 2014. Distributed PV will play an increasingly important role in Chinas energy mix in the next years as part of the countrys efforts to tackle air pollution.

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pv magazine

27 May 2014

In 2013, the Chinese PV market exploded with an annual installed capacity of 11.8 GW. Due to the national feed-in tariff (FIT), around 73% of those installations were ground-mounted power plants primarily built in the north and northwest provinces, far from the load centers in the east. Delayed grid connection coupled with persistent curtailment of …

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