BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese authorities have recently released the most stringent photovoltaic (PV) policies in an effort to promote healthy and orderly development of the PV industry.
The country will suspend the issuance of ordinary ground power station quotas, limit the scale of distributed PVs, and reduce the on-grid power tariffs, according to a document jointly released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Finance, and the National Energy Administration (NEA).
The industry insiders note that the background of the new policies is the greater pressure from the PV subsidies, expecting that the new policies will stimulate the industry to further reduce development costs and develop to an unsubsidized model.
In the past few years, the ordinary PV power plants in China have developed rapidly. In some places, the issue of abandonment has appeared. The new policies will not only alleviate the utilization problems, but also leave room for development of high-quality PV projects with advanced technologies, said the NEA.
Data of the NEA shows that since last year, the distributed PV power generation has been developing at a high speed. From January to April this year, it has acquired a new installed capacity of 8.75 GW. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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