Featured in The journey to 100 GW – 05-2023

Going big on the small

The introduction of a solar mandate pilot program has driven an explosion in rooftop PV across China. S&P Global expects small-array installation figures of around 60 GW per year in the immediate future, reports principal analyst Holly Hu.

Rising distributed-generation (DG) solar demand in the last two years has made mainland China the world’s biggest residential PV market. Some 62 GW(AC) of home solar have been installed in the last four years and 95 GW of commercial and industrial (C&I) arrays mean the combined 158 GW of small systems made up 40% of …

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