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2017 Q1 PV installations and operational statistics
Original title: 2017年第一季度光伏发电建设和运行信息简况
Links: Original source (in Chinese) (link). Same statistics for (Q1 2016)
In Q1 2017, China maintained a rapid growth of PV power generation, with new installations of 7.21 GW, essentially equal to Q1 2016。Of this, newly installed capacity in centralized PV power plants was 4.78 GW, down 23% year-on-year；newly installed capacity of distributed PV was 2.43 GW, an increase of 151% year-on-year。Newly installed capacity reveals a trend of a slow-down in PV power plants installations and an acceleration of distributed PV。Cumulative installed PV capacity reached 84.63 GW, of which 71.88 GW in concentrated PV power plants, and 12.75 GW of distributed PV capacity。
PV power generation in Q1 was 21.4 TWh, an increase of 80% year-on-year。Total nationwide curtailment was circa 2.3 TWh。PV curtailment rates in Ningxia and Gansu were significantly lower, at 10% and 19%, respectively; a decrease of approximately 10 and 20 percentage points from Q1 last year；Curtailment rates in Qinghai, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia increased to 9%, 11%, 8%；In Xinjiang (including XPCC) PV curtailment was still as high as 39%。
Regarding the geographic distribution of PV installations, the eastern part of the country has become a major growth area, with newly installed capacity of 6.39 GW, accounting for 89% of the national total newly installed capacity。The development of distributed PV generation capacity continues to accelerate, mainly in Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces。
For 2017 Q1 PV construction and operational statistics by province (autonomous region, municipality), see attached table。
Annex：
2017 Q1 PV construction and operational statistics
| Province (autonomous region, municipality) | Cumulative installed capacity (MW) | Newly installed capacity (MW) | ||
| Of which：utility scale PV plants | Of which：utility scale PV plants | |||
| Total | 84,630 | 71,880 | 7,210 | 4,780 |
| Beijing | 240 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Tianjin | 600 | 480 | 2 | 0 |
| Hebei | 4,920 | 4,360 | 500 | 320 |
| Shanxi | 3,090 | 2,900 | 120 | 60 |
| Inner Mongolia | 6,560 | 6,550 | 190 | 180 |
| Liaoning | 560 | 390 | 40 | 30 |
| Jilin | 620 | 520 | 60 | 10 |
| Heilongjiang | 180 | 120 | 10 | 5 |
| Shanghai | 400 | 20 | 40 | 0 |
| Jiangsu | 6,110 | 4,090 | 660 | 360 |
| Zhejiang | 4,430 | 1,900 | 1,050 | 600 |
| Anhui | 4,530 | 3,360 | 1,080 | 690 |
| Fujian | 430 | 230 | 160 | 120 |
| Jiangxi | 2,760 | 2,140 | 480 | 420 |
| Shandong | 5,010 | 3,420 | 460 | 60 |
| Henan | 3,850 | 3,370 | 1,010 | 890 |
| Hubei | 2,040 | 1,780 | 170 | 100 |
| Hunan | 440 | 50 | 150 | 50 |
| Guangdong | 1,750 | 780 | 190 | 110 |
| Guangxi | 190 | 100 | 7 | 10 |
| Hainan | 340 | 240 | 0 | 0 |
| Chongqing | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sichuan | 960 | 900 | 2 | 0 |
| Guizhou | 460 | 460 | 0 | 0 |
| Yunnan | 2,100 | 2,080 | 10 | 0 |
| Tibet | 390 | 390 | 60 | 60 |
| Shaanxi | 3,880 | 3,730 | 540 | 520 |
| Gansu | 6,970 | 6,900 | 110 | 110 |
| Qinghai | 6,900 | 6,890 | 80 | 70 |
| Ningxia | 5,270 | 5,050 | 10 | 0 |
| Xinjiang | 8,640 | 8,640 | 20 | 0 |
