China has been losing steam on ways to achieve its annual solar targets. With Japan coming up strongly, there is a real chance that the former may not be the leading solar installer this year. China had set itself a target to install 14 GW solar PV this year. However, due to delays and postponements in projects, the country does not seem to have enough time at hand to pursue it. Li Junfeng, Director General of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, shared in an interview that China may “only” be able to add slightly more than 10 GW of solar PV this year. As per forecasts from Bloomberg, Japan on the other hand is all set to achieve 10.3 GW to 11.9 GW in 2014. Early this year, the Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) had set ambitious annual targets of 6 GW from ground-mounted projects and 8 GW from distributed projects. However, in June, these targets were revised to a more realistic 10 GW (total). In August, buoyed by the confidence that supporting policies to be launched in September would tackle problem areas and help boost installations, targets were raised back to 13 GW. cleantechnica/2014/12/04/china-poised-lose-solar-top-spot-japan/
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 07:54:53 +0000