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Published on: August 4, 2017

Original title: 2017年上半年光伏发电建设运行信息简况
Links: Original source (in Chinese) (link) Same statistics for (2018 Q1&2) (2017 Q1&2) (2016 Q1&2) (2015 Q1&2).

In the first half of 2017, nationwide additions of PV power generation capacity were 24.4 GW, an increase of 9% on the same period last year, of which：PV power plant 17.29 GW, down 16% on the same period last year；Installations of distributed PV were 7.11 GW, 2.9 times as much as the same period last year。Newly added capacity of PV in June was 13.15 GW, an increase of 16 percent year-on-year, of which：PV power plants 10.07 GW, down 8% year-on-year；Distributed PV 3.08 GW, an eight-fold increase year-on-year。By the end of June, nationwide PV power generation capacity reached 101.82 GW, of which：PV power plants 84.39 GW, distributed PV 17.43 GW。

In the first half of 2017, PV power generation was 51.8 TWh, an increase of 75% on the same period last year。Nationwide curtailment of PV was 3.7 TWh, meaning PV curtailment rates fell by 4.5 percentage points. PV curtailment occurred mostly in Xinjiang and Gansu, of which：Xinjiang (including XPCC) had PV curtailment of 1.7 TWh, or a curtailment rate of 26%, down 6 percentage points on the same period last year；Gansu had PV curtailment of 0.97 TWh, or a curtailment rate of 22%, down almost 10 percentage points on the same period last year。

From a geographic perspective, new installations saw a more obvious shift from the Northwestern to Eastern regions。Newly installed capacity in East China was 8.25 GW, 1.5 times as much as the same period last year, and accounting for 34% of newly added capacity nationwide. This includes Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, which each had newly installed capacity exceeding over 2 GW。Newly installed capacity in Central China was 4.23 GW, an increase of 37 percent on the same period last year, accounting for 17.3% of new installations nationwide。Newly installed capacity in the Northwest was 4.16 GW, down 50% on the same period last year。

The development of distributed PV generation capacity continues to accelerate. This was mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Shandong and Anhui provinces, where newly installed capacity exceeded 1 GW, more than a twofold increase on the same period last year. Together, these three provinces accounted for 54.2% of nationwide newly added capacity of distributed PV。

For 2017 Q1&2 statistics on PV construction and operation by province (autonomous region, municipality), see the annex。

Annex:

2017 Q1&2 PV construction and operation statistics

Province (autonomous region, municipality)	Cumulative installed capacity (MW)			Newly installed capacity (MW)
		utility scale PV plants	Distributed		utility scale PV plants	Distributed
Total	101,820	84,390	17,430	24,400	17,290	7,110
Beijing	240	50	190	0	0	0
Tianjin	600	480	120	0	0	0
Hebei	6,020	5,120	900	1,590	1,080	510
Shanxi	3,700	3,360	340	730	520	210
Inner Mongolia	6,960	6,950	10	600	590	10
Liaoning	1,280	1,040	240	760	680	80
Jilin	1,160	960	200	600	450	150
Heilongjiang	650	590	60	490	480	10
Shanghai	470	20	450	110	0	110
Jiangsu	7,870	5,590	2,280	2,420	1,860	560
Zhejiang	5,990	2,660	3,330	2,600	1,350	1,250
Anhui	6,360	4,200	2,160	2,910	1,530	1,380
Fujian	480	230	250	210	120	90
Jiangxi	3,250	2,350	900	970	630	340
Shandong	6,090	3,670	2,420	1,540	310	1,230
Henan	4,650	3,870	780	1,800	1,390	410
Hubei	2,700	2,240	460	830	570	260
Hunan	890	450	440	600	450	150
Guangdong	2,570	1,520	1,050	1,010	840	170
Guangxi	410	310	100	230	220	10
Hainan	320	270	50	-20	20	-40
Chongqing	10	0	10	0	0	0
Sichuan	990	920	70	30	20	10
Guizhou	660	660	0	200	200	0
Yunnan	2,110	2,080	30	20	0	20
Tibet	570	570	0	250	250	0
Shaanxi	4,810	4,580	230	1,470	1,360	110
Gansu	7,660	7,550	110	800	760	40
Qinghai	7,190	7,170	20	370	350	20
Ningxia	6,110	5,880	230	850	830	20
Xinjiang	7,200	7,200	0	110	110	0
XPCC	1,850	1,850	0	320	320	0

Note：Hainan's statistics for Q1 2017 had an error of 40 MW. This has been subtracted in the corresponding data in this table, which means that the newly installed capacity total is less than the newly installed capacity of PV power plants。

2017 Q1&2 Newly added installations

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