China's solar photo-voltaic power generation industry policies analysis

Abstract

Solar photovoltaic, as a new type of energy, is a clean, efficient energy that China strongly encourages and supports to use. With the proposal of the “Carbon-neutral” and “Carbon-peak” strategic goals, China’s photovoltaic power generation industry has developed rapidly in recent years. In order to support the development of China's photovoltaic power generation industry, both central and regional governments issued policies and measures. However, there are also some problems such as incomplete policies, monopoly of upstream enterprises, the inability of mutual transmission among various places, photovoltaic cell consumables and recycling. In order to solve the above problems, this paper focuses on the development background and characteristics of the solar photovoltaic power generation industry, systematically expounds on the evolution process of China’s photovoltaic energy generation industry policies at the national and local levels, and finds that the characteristics of the policies issued in the photovoltaic field in China are that subsidy policies dominate, and there are many subsidy policies aimed at the mid-stream and down-stream of the industrial chain. Besides that, there are also few policies for photovoltaic transmission between different places; In terms of benefits, the installed capacity of photovoltaic power generation in China has gradually increased, and the environment in China has indeed improved, but the upstream of the industrial chain has obvious interest concentration and monopoly. Therefore, this paper puts forward several policy recommendations to accelerate the high-quality development of China’s photovoltaic industry.