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China has nearly 50% of the world’s solar capacity: IEA

China has nearly 50% of the world’s solar capacity: IEA

April 21, 2025 | , ,

In 2024, the global cumulative installed capacity reached 2.25 TW. It took more than 40 years to reach a cumulative capacity of 1.18 TW (in 2022), but just 2 years to double this. Growth in cumulative capacity remained over 35% — above average for the past 10 years. Within the Top Ten of total cumulative installed capacities, where last year the Chinese cumulative capacity was just over double that of Europe, this year it is triple. There is still a long gap before Japan, who slipping to 5th place and has a slowing market, will be overtaken in cumulative capacity.

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Energy Transition, a Balanced Look at Global Approaches: EDP Renewables’ Miguel Fonseca

Energy Transition, a Balanced Look at Global Approaches: EDP Renewables’ Miguel Fonseca

April 14, 2025 |

The global energy transition is a multifaceted challenge, often muddled by competing narratives and oversimplified assumptions. Climate change demands action, and major economic blocs—US, China, and Europe—are responding with strategies shaped by their unique economic, geopolitical, and technological contexts. Too often, public discourse conflates these factors, obscuring the practical realities at play.

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China’s Domination Over Global Solar PV Supply Chain

China’s Domination Over Global Solar PV Supply Chain

January 13, 2025 | , ,

China’s competitive edge in solar PV manufacturing over other countries comes from four key factors: economies of scale, supply chain vertical integration, technological innovation, and government support. In this list, economies of scale and supply chain vertical integration are the two most important factors. China managed better than any other country to reap these economies of scale. The recipe to maximize economies of scale is straightforward: the bigger, the better.

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Rooftop Solar Adoption in China and Japan

Rooftop Solar Adoption in China and Japan

September 16, 2024 | , ,

China has been pioneering the rooftop solar revolution. The country possesses a technical solar potential of 2,070 GW. The cumulative solar installations in China had reached 609 GW by the end of 2023. Japan has been a consistent performer in rooftop solar deployment. The country has consistently led in distributed solar deployment, with a 39 per cent contribution to the total installed renewable capacity as of April 2024.

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Strong Clean Energy Policy Momentum in China

Strong Clean Energy Policy Momentum in China

August 12, 2024 | ,

Government policy has played a central role in China’s stunning success in expanding its clean energy industries. China’s largest clean energy sectors – namely wind, solar PV, batteries, and new energy vehicles – straddle the line between being state-owned and the market economy. China’s central government began targeting manufacturing in each of these clean energy fields for various forms of support, initially starting with pilot projects or narrow efforts to popularize technologies in small niches, such as rural electrification for solar PV, or buses as EVs. China’s success in the fields of batteries and electric vehicles is more recent than that of wind and solar, and shows both similarities and differences. The role of public policy has been prominent in all cases.

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A Win-Win Opportunity: Utilising China’s Spare Solar Capacity

A Win-Win Opportunity: Utilising China’s Spare Solar Capacity

June 17, 2024 | , ,

The manufacturing capacity of factories worldwide tripled from 2021 to 2023, and is set to reach 1,100 GW per year by the end of 2024. About 80-85% of manufacturing capacity is based in China, which is also the clear market leader in upstream parts of the supply chain. However, forecasts for deployment this decade suggest that more than half of this manufacturing capacity will lie unused, with neither government targets nor project pipelines running at a commensurate scale.

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Jinchen to install 10 GW of production lines in India

Jinchen to install 10 GW of production lines in India

June 17, 2021 |

Chinese manufacturer, Jinchen Machinery has announced the receipt of solar module production line orders of about 10 GW from India in 2021. Out of total orders, it has already installed 2 GW of equipment while the remaining capacity will be supplied over the next 2-3 months. The company also plans to open its office in Surat, Gujarat by August 2021, to serve its Indian customers.

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VRB Energy to develop 100 MW solar project with integrated storage in China

VRB Energy to develop 100 MW solar project with integrated storage in China

March 16, 2021 |

VRB Energy has announced the signing of a framework agreement for a 100 MW solar photovoltaic and 100 MW / 500 MWh vanadium flow battery integrated power station project in Xiangyang city in the Hubei Province of China. Additionally, the agreement also includes the construction of the first 50 MW per annum of a new 1,000 MW per annum “Gigafactory” manufacturing facility for the company’s energy storage systems, and a vanadium flow battery intelligent energy research and development institute.

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Xinte Energy to supply 152,400 metric tonnes of polysilicon

Xinte Energy to supply 152,400 metric tonnes of polysilicon

March 15, 2021 |

Chinese polysilicon producer Xinte Energy has secured a polysilicon supply contract with a new entity, Qinghai Gaojing Solar Energy Technology. Xinte Energy will supply Qinghai Gaojing Solar Energy Technology Co with a total of 152,400 metric tonnes of polysilicon from July 2021 to December 2025 with prices being negotiated monthly. It is estimated that the contract could generate revenue of approximately $2.6 billion over the four and a half year agreement.

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China solar unit defaults on $500 million bond amid 700% rally

China solar unit defaults on $500 million bond amid 700% rally

February 2, 2021 | , ,

A unit of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. defaulted on a $500 million bond after ending an exchange offer with existing bondholders. GCL New Energy Holdings Ltd. announced the default in an exchange filing. The firm, which operates solar power plants, is majority owned by GCL-Poly, one of the world’s leading makers of solar-grade polysilicon, and whose shares have soared 700 per cent since China announced plans to be carbon neutral by 2060.

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China adds record residential solar capacity

China adds record residential solar capacity

October 25, 2020 |

China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has reported that a record level of residential solar was added in the world’s biggest market last month, with at least 1,301 MW installed on rooftops. The latest numbers took the total capacity installed in the first nine months of the year to 5.27 GW. The figure is based on arrays included on the national subsidy list so the true number could be even higher.

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