How the photovoltaic industry should transform and upgrade to meet the challenges

"Thirteenth Five-Year" period, China will add 15 million kW to 20 million kW of photovoltaic power generation each year, continue to maintain the world's strongest growth, China's photovoltaic development has clearly gone beyond the start-up stage, to a stage of mature development.

The Prospect Industry Research Institute pointed out that the transformation and development of the PV industry is facing four challenges, one is that solar photovoltaic power generation still relies on government subsidies to support. At present, the cost of photovoltaic power generation is still unable to compete with traditional energy sources such as thermal power. The development of the solar industry still needs to rely on government subsidies for electricity prices. The economic cycle and national financial situation may have an impact on the relevant subsidy policy.

The second is the faster technological update. Solar modules in recent years, the rapid technological upgrading, conversion efficiency to improve faster, the cost continues to decrease. Photovoltaic manufacturing enterprises need to maintain component efficiency and production processes to keep pace with the development of the industry. In addition, thin-film technology and the continuous development of solar thermal power generation technology is also the current crystalline silicon cell technology-based photovoltaic industry poses a potential threat of substitution.

Third is the threat from other renewable energy sources. The development of new energy industry is changing rapidly, especially wind power, with its relatively mature technology, low cost, small footprint, large installed capacity has been the rapid development and widespread application. Solar photovoltaic power generation has the disadvantage of a large footprint, there is a risk of being replaced by other renewable energy sources.

Fourth, photovoltaic power generation on the grid company transmission capacity has high requirements. China's western region is sparsely populated, abundant light is centralized large-scale ground-based solar photovoltaic power plant construction focus area, the future development potential is also very considerable. However, China's main power consumption area is located in the eastern coastal region. Western power transmission capacity and western solar photovoltaic power plant installed capacity can not synchronize the development of western photovoltaic power plant production of solar power in the east has no place.