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Mixed outlook for China tracker adoption

Trackers: The sun may be sizzling in Western Chinese provinces like Xinjiang, Quinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan, where intense insolation hits chart-topping rates of over 2,000 kWh/m² . But China solar tracker adoption there may lag behind the performance of the EU and US solar markets, where trackers came to dominate utility installations in around five years.

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Charles W. Thurston

13 Apr 2015

China’s grandiose PV plan is to have at least 100 GW of solar power capacity installed by 2020, but in 2014 the country had only installed an estimated 2.05 GW of distributed PV (of which at least 50% is ground-mounted) and 8.55 GW of non-distributed PV farms. For 2015, China has set a target of 17.8 GW …

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