Photo: Xinhua The installation of solar farms in China hit another record in 2022, while the amount of new fossil fuel-powered capacity fell for a second consecutive year as the nation continued to reduce its reliance on coal to generate electricity.
Land use policy for developing PV solar farms in China. Different from most developed countries, in China, urban lands are owned by the country, and rural lands are collective ownership. For this reason, the development of PV solar farms highly relies on the land use policy introduced by the government.
But building an industry that can stand on its own will be difficult. China produces practically all of the world’s equipment for making solar panels, and almost all of the supply of every component of solar panels, from wafers to special glass.
China added 216 gigawatts of solar in 2023, a little over half in large solar farms, according to the country’s National Energy Administration. China’s total is more than half of what the entire world added last year, according to research from the consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
This allows the shipments to avoid trade barriers, like tariffs imposed on many Chinese imports by President Donald J. Trump. Several of China’s biggest solar panel manufacturers are building final assembly plants in the United States to tap subsidies offered as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Workers cleaning solar panels work on the rooftop of the factory of energy equipment manufacture Iraeta on the outskirts of Jinan in eastern China’s Shandong province on March 21, 2024. It’s the leading province for renewable energy capacity, but that also means it’s the first to encounter the difficulties of rapid growth. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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