Featured in More than just a number – 03-2018

Running low at the top

Top Runner Program: China has not only become the largest country for high-efficiency cell and module capacity thanks to the Top Runner Program. It’s also the world’s largest demand country for high-efficiency modules. This shows that the Top Runner Program has brought a certain level of effectiveness to the high-efficiency trend.

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pv magazine

13 Mar 2018

The Top Runner Program is a power plant demonstration project released by the Chinese government in 2015 to encourage technology upgrades. It only allows products that meet certain efficiency levels (below) to bid. In the first phase of the program in 2015, involving 1 GW of installations, mono-Si products represented 58% of all products, mostly …

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