Comments on: China’s New Distributed Solar PV Policies To Boost Distributed Solar To 35% Market Share, Report Finds

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:19:00 +0000

thanks. yeah, just included that in a news roundup. good to see.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:37:00 +0000

China has increased their solar goal by 4x recently. They went from a plan of having 5 GWs on line by 2015 to having 21 GWs on line by 2015.

The price of solar is falling so fast that I think we’ll see a lot of the surplus sucked up fairly fast. India is likely to be a big installer. They currently use a lot of diesel which is an expensive way to generate electricity. They can save significant money by installing solar and turning off the generators when the Sun is shining.

We’re still going to see a lot of solar manufacturers fail. The most efficient can increase their production, generally making their product even cheaper to produce, and the less efficient get forced out.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:26:00 +0000

why, if they are having trouble selling the panels abroad, dont they sell/give/install them on every roof in china. grow/subsidise an industry in bad time, cut your energy import bill, cut pollution from coal power plants.
it is a totalitarian state. you can do this.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:28:00 +0000

There is a similar sort of situation in India. Specifically India more concentrated on the Single place Utility Scale plants. But now India has released a new set of Policies the JNNSM Phase – 2 (http://www.renewindians.com/2012/12/mnre-releases-jnnsm-phase-2-draft.html) to be precise to tackle this issue. This Phase plans to install more distributed PV systems and also more Offgrid systems too.