China Solar Energy Installed Capacity

In 2015 china surpassed germany s installed base of solar power capacity and claimed the position as the largest solar market by both new installations and cumulative capacity.

China solar energy installed capacity.

China is expected to grow its cumulative installed capacity from 175 gw in 2018 to a staggering 448 gw by the end of 2023 an increase of 273 gw or more than 150. Last year 53 gigawatts of solar capacity were installed in china. Of the 6 412 twh electricity produced in china in 2017 118 2 twh was generated by solar power equivalent to 1 84 of total electricity production. Due to differences in statistical standards confirmation of moment of grid connection and other reasons there are certain discrepancies in data on total and newly installed generation capacity 4.

China is the world s leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources with over double the generation of the second ranking country the united states by the end of 2018 the country had a total capacity of 728 gw of renewable power mainly from hydroelectric and wind power china s renewable energy sector is growing faster than its fossil fuels and nuclear power capacity. Wind and solar power generation and generation capacity statistics are for grid connected capacity 3. The relatively modest new additions took china s cumulative installed capacity to 185 5 gw according to the nea figures. By the end of 2016 cumulative photovoltaic capacity increased by more than 75 gigawatt gw and reached at least 303 gw sufficient to supply approximately 1 8 percent of the world s total electricity consumption.

That amounted to 38 3 percent of china s total installed power capacity up 1 7 percentage points on the year and around 7 percentage points higher than at the end of 2015. China is the world s largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy since 2013 china has been the world s leading installer of solar photovoltaics pv. This year liu expects installations to total no more than 35 gigawatts a drop of more than 30. Solar water heating is also extensively implemented with a total installed capacity of 290 gwth at the end of 2014 representing about 70 of world s total installed solar thermal capacity.

By early 2020 the leading country for solar power was china with 208 gw accounting for one third of global installed solar capacity.