The PV power-generating stations and distributed PV systems completed and connected to local power grids in areas covered by the five nationwide power generating and distributing groups in China during first-half 2015 had total installation capacity of 6.32GWp, hiking 77.03% on year, according to State Grid Energy Research Institute under State Grid Corp of China.
State Grid is one of the five nationwide groups. The other four are China Huaneng, China Huadian, China Datang and China Power Investment.
The northwestern region accounted for 49% of the total installation capacity; the northern 25%; the eastern 16%; the central 8%; and the northeastern 2%.
As of the end of June 2015, there was cumulative total on-grid installation capacity of 30.77GWp, of which 58% was in the northwestern region and 20% in the northern part.
Due to insufficient on-grid capacities of local power grids, PV-generated electricity of 1.141 billion kWh in Gansu, 463 million kWh in Xinjiang and 128 million kWh in Qinghai was not on grids and thus lost in first-half 2015.
For distributed PV systems, there have been 27 pilot districts, mostly high-tech industrial parks, to exemplify power generation. The distributed PV systems in the 27 pilot districts have plans for total installation capacity of 3.08GWp.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
