Photovoltaic National Investment Promotion Board

Does national policy regulation support photovoltaic poverty alleviation?

Although the benchmark feed-in tariff for photovoltaic power decreases continuously, and power grid parity for renewable energy is inevitable, national policy regulation and controls still provide preferential support for photovoltaic poverty alleviation (Yang et al., 2019).

When did China start promoting the photovoltaic industry?

As a country with huge solar energy potentials, China started to promote the photovoltaic industry in the 1970s. With the fact that the sunshine in each province exceeds 1100 kWh/m2, the rapidly-increasing utilization of solar energy and the rapid growth of the photovoltaic industry were emerging (Sun et al., 2014).

Does photovoltaic technology reduce energy industry poverty?

Photovoltaic technologies played a leading role in energy industry poverty alleviation (Guo and Li, 2016); however, the current photovoltaic poverty alleviation strategy is a relatively new initiative.

Are photovoltaic power projects sustainable?

As an essential strategy of generating income and mitigating emissions especially in countries well-endowed with sunlight, the deployment of photovoltaic power projects is consistent with sustainable development goals relating to global poverty eradication.

What is a solar PV VPP?

PV VPP: The South Australian government and Tesla are developing a network of 50 000 home solar PV units connected to an aggregator. The VPP is ex-pected to meet around 20% of South Australia’s average daily power demand (250 MW).

Which province has the most photovoltaic projects?

Taking the village-level poverty alleviation stations as an example, the standard project scale was about 5 kW for each poverty alleviation target. As for the provincial photovoltaic project distribution, Anhui province has the largest installed capacity with the total installed capacity of 1372.04 MW.