China’s newly-added PV installation was 7.73GW in the first half of 2015, and 6.69GW of which were represented by ground-mounted PV plants and 1.04GW of which were represented by distributed PV, according to a statistical data from the National Energy Board.
The cumulative PV installation in China has reached 35.78GW by June 2015, in which 30.07GW was PV plants and 5.71GW belonged to distributed PV. Power generated in the first half of 2015 was 19,000,000,000kWh, with an abandon rate approaching 10% to 1,800,000,000kWh. The abandon rates were the highest in Gansu and Xinjiang, reaching 28% and 19%, respectively.
What’s worth mention is that China only added 5.04GW and 2.69GW of PV capacity in 1Q15 and 2Q15, respectively. Thus, there’s still a 10.07GW of capacity that needs to be installed in order to achieve the installation target of 17.8GW in 2015. In other words, a capacity of more than 5GW has to be each installed in 3Q15 and 4Q15. However, manufacturers generally believe that it wouldn’t be difficult to achieve the target of 17.8GW this year due to strong demand in the Chinese market.
So far, there are eight Chinese provinces and regions with more than 1GW of PV installation: Gansu 5.78GW, Xinjiang 5.7GW, Qinghai 4.7GW, Inner Mongolia 4.03GW, Jiangsu 3.02GW, Ningxia 2.39GW, Hebei 1.6GW, and Zhejiang 1.43GW. Regions with larger amount of installation in the first quarter of 2015 are: Xinjiang 2.14GW, Inner Mongolia 1.01GW, Zhejiang 700MW, Gansu 610MW, Qinghai 580MW and Jiangsu 450MW.