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Published on: February 4, 2017

Original title: 2016年光伏发电统计信息
Links: Original CN (link). Same statistics for: (2018) (2017) (2016) (2015) (2014) (2013) (2012).
By the end of 2016, China added 34.54 GW of newly installed PV capacity, with cumulative installed capacity reaching 77.42 GW, both newly and cumulative installed capacity were the highest worldwide。Of this, total installed capacity of PV power plants was 67.1 GW, and 10.32 GW of distributed capacity。Annual electricity generation was 66.2 TWh, accounting for 1% of total annual electricity generation in China。

PV development shifted to central and eastern regions。Of the newly installed PV capacity, 9.74 GW was in the Northwest, accounting for 28% of the nationwide newly installed capacity；Outside of the Northwest, new installations were 24.8 GW, accounting for 72% of national installations；In the central and eastern regions there were nine provinces that added more than 1 GW, with 3.22 GW in Shandong, 2.44 GW in Henan, 2.25 GW in Anhui, 2.03 GW in Hebei, 1.85 GW in Jiangxi, 1.83 GW in Shanxi, 1.75 GW in Zhejiang, 1.38 GW in Hubei, and 1.23 GW in Jiangsu。

The development of distributed PV accelerated in 2016, with newly installed capacity of 4.24 GW, an increase of more than 200% compared with new capacity added in 2015。Distributed PV saw a relatively large increase in central and eastern regions, with the top five provinces in newly added installations being Zhejiang (860 MW), Shandong (750 MW), Jiangsu (530 MW), Anhui (460 MW) and Jiangxi (310 MW)。

Annex：2016 Solar PV statistics

 

2016 Solar PV statistics

Province (autonomous region, municipality)	Cumulative installed capacity (MW)	Of which：utility scale PV plants	Newly installed capacity (MW)	Of which：utility scale PV plants
Total	77,420	67,100	34,540	30,310
Beijing	240	50	80	30
Tianjin	600	480	470	440
Hebei	4,430	4,040	2,030	1,920
Shanxi	2,970	2,840	1,830	1,720
Inner Mongolia	6,370	6,370	1480*	1,660
Liaoning	520	360	360	290
Jilin	560	510	490	450
Heilongjiang	170	120	150	110
Shanghai	350	20	140	0
Jiangsu	5,460	3,730	1,230	700
Zhejiang	3,380	1,310	1,750	880
Anhui	3,450	2,670	2,250	1,780
Fujian	270	110	120	80
Jiangxi	2,280	1,710	1,850	1,540
Shandong	4,550	3,360	3,220	2,470
Henan	2,840	2,480	2,440	2,340
Hubei	1,870	1,670	1,380	1,240
Hunan	300	0	10	0
Guangdong	1,560	680	920	610
Guangxi	180	90	60	40
Hainan	340	240	100	50
Chongqing	5	0	0	0
Sichuan	960	900	600	570
Guizhou	460	460	430	430
Yunnan	2,080	2,080	1,440	1,450
Tibet	330	330	160	160
Shaanxi	3,340	3,220	2,170	2,100
Gansu	6,860	6,800	760	740
Qinghai	6,820	6,820	1,190	1,180
Ningxia	5,260	5,050	2,170	1,990
Xinjiang	8,620	8,620	3290*	3,330

*Note：2015 statistics on distributed generation capacity for Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang had errors of 180 and 40 MW. This has been corrected in this table, making total newly installed capacity for 2016 lower than the reported newly installed capacity for PV power plants for these provinces。