China Solar Energy Installed Capacity

Large scale solar parks make up around 130 5 gw of china s pv capacity.

China solar energy installed capacity.

By early 2020 the leading country for solar power was china with 208 gw accounting for one third of global installed solar capacity. Last year 53 gigawatts of solar capacity were installed in china. 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. In 2017 china was the first country to pass 100 gw of cumulative installed pv capacity and by the end of 2018 it had 174.

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. 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. This year liu expects installations to total no more than 35 gigawatts a drop of more than 30. In 2015 china became the world s largest producer of photovoltaic power narrowly surpassing germany.

Wind and solar power generation and generation capacity statistics are for grid connected capacity 3. 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. 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. The relatively modest new additions took china s cumulative installed capacity to 185 5 gw according to the nea figures.

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.