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China: 2018 installations could drop by over one third

On Friday, June 1, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), National Energy Administration (NEA), and Ministry of Finance (MOF) issued a joint “2018 Solar PV Power Generation Notice,” which is set to far reaching implications.

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Eckhart Gouras

19 Jun 2018

The impact of this notice has been hotly debated in the days since and two key conclusions are that: (i) the largest market segment, utility-scale PV, will take a hard hit and will not come close to last year’s record installation figure (just under 34 GW); and (ii) the rising distributed generation (DG) market segment, …

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